“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” ― J. B. Priestley

 (daily ex., morning dog walk, gentle stretching and yoga, trying to fix injured knee., pm tm jog 3.8 mi)

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.---Carl Sagan

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”

― Edward O. Wilson

(daily ex., morning dog walk 2.9 mi, stretching, pm jog 1.1 mi streaksaver, rest day)

“You know I am really stupid. For years I have looked for the perfect pencil. I have found very good ones but never the perfect one. And all the time it was not the pencils but me.” —John Steinbeck

 (daily ex, morning stretching, yoga, dog walk 1.5 mi, pm tm jog 4.1 mi with 0.5 mi cooldown walk)

“People who bet on themselves tend to win.” —Billie Jean King, tennis great

 (daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 2 mi, pm tm 4 mi jog, 0.5 mi cooldown walk)

Prayer is talking to the universe. Meditation is listening to it.

 (daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 1.2 mi, pm tm jog 6.3 mi)

“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive” By Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

(daily ex., morning stretching, 1.5 mi dog walk, pm 1.1 mi , rest day)

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall

 (daily ex., dog walk and group Fleet Feet walk 3.8 mi., tm jogs 5 mi, a little morning stretching)

Rust never sleeps..Rust-oleum slogan

 (daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 1.5 mi, pm tm jog 3.6 mi)

“Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.” ― Truman Capote

 (daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 1.3 mi, pm slow tm jog 5.2 mi, cooldown walk .4 mi)

Be kind to the trees. They are busy saving the world.

 (daily ex., morning stretching and yoga, dog walk 1.7 mi, pm tm jog 2.5 mi followed by 2 mi cooldown walk)

“In general, indeed, the wise in all ages have always said the same thing, and the fools, who at all times form the immense majority, have in their way too acted alike, and done just the opposite; and so it will continue.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

 (daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 1.5 mi, pm slow tm jog 3.1 mi, cooldown walk 1.1 mi., chilly damp day)

Arthur C Clarke / . "Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale."

(daily ex., morning dog walk 2.3 mi, followed by stretching and yoga, pm slow jog tm 3.5 mi)

"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.” ~Herman Melville,

 

“We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.”

― Grace Paley

(daily ex., morning stretching and yoga, dog walk 1.5 mi, pm slow tm jog 4 mi, 0.5 mi cooldown walk)

“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.” – Confucius

 Not sure I agree. Confucius may have gotten this one wrong. Life is not a spectator sport.

(daily ex., morning stretching, 3 walks = 4.9 mi, pm jog 1.6 mi)

“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets” is a quote by Arthur Miller, the author of The Crucible.

 (daily ex.,morning stretching and yoga, dog walk 1.1 mi, pm tm jog 3.1 mi, 1 mi cooldown walk)

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.” ― George Bernard Shaw

 (daily ex., morning stretching and yoga, dog walk 1.7 mi, pm slow jog 2.8 mi.  Trying to get back into the routine) 

“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.” ― Mary Oliver

 (daily exercise, I'm back home, morning yoga, dog walk 1.1 mi, pm jog 2.1 mi)

“And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.” Maya Angelou

 (daily ex., brief morning stretching and yoga, dog walk 1.5 mi, pm tm jog 4.7 mi)

Every day when I wake up, I don't let the old man in. Clint Eastwood

 

                                            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc5AWImplfE

(daily ex., morning stretching and yoga, dog walk 1.4 mi, pm tm jog 3.1 mi)

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.” — Pete Seeger

 (daily ex.,morning stretching, 0.6 mi dog walk, pm 2 tm runs of 3.7 and 1.5 mi)

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” ― Graham Greene

 (daily ex., 3 walks=4.5 mi, 1 mi tm run, a little stretching)

“Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.” ― A.S. Byatt, Possession

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1 mi, then stretching and yoga, pm slow jog-walk 4 miles, tired legs today)

/ Arthur C Clarke / . "If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods."

 (daily ex.,morning yoga and stretching, dog walk 1.7 mi, afternoon tm jog 6.2 miles)

“Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.” ― Terry Pratchett

 (daily ex., morning stretching and yoga, morning dog walk 3.2 mi., pm slow jog 4 mi)