Quotes About Resilience

this ninety-five-year-old man came hiking twenty-five miles over the mountain. Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn't. No one ever told him he oughta be off dying somewhere in an old age home. You live up to your own expectations, man.

Lesson two,' Caballo called. 'Think Easy, Light, Smooth, and Fast. You start with easy, because if that's all you get's that's not so bad. Then work on light. Make it effortless, like you don't give a shit how high the hill is or how far you've got to go.

Strictly by accident, Scott stumbled upon the most advanced weapon in the ultrarunner's arsenal: instead of cringing from fatigue, you embrace it. You refuse to let it go. You get to know it so well, you're not afraid of it anymore.

Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn't. No one ever told him he oughta be off dying somewhere in an old age home. You live up to your own expectations, man.

crap out of him," said Dusty Olson, Proctor's star jock when he and Scott were teenagers. During cross-country runs, Dusty and his buddies would pelt Scott with mud and take off. "He could never catch up," Dusty said. "No one could understand why he was so slow, because

You are fit if you can adapt to the demands of your environment with ease and imagination," Myers

That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They

Urique. As a mining village whose best days

If he could do it, Churchill was certain, so could his fellow misfits.

there was never anything wrong with Jenni that couldn't be fixed by what's right with Jenni.

extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction.

La resistencia está en el corazón de todas tus historias

My arms floated until my hands were rib-high; my stride chopped down to pitty-pat steps; my back straightened so much I could almost hear the vertebrae creaking.

We've got a motto here—you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can. Guy like Aron, he shows the rest of us what we can do if we dig deep.

Because that's the ugly truth about heroism: the tests don't start when you're ready or stop when you're tired. You don't get time-outs, warm-ups, or bathroom breaks.

That's what I'm saying,' Scott insisted. 'I've been there, man. I've been there a lot. It takes more guts than going fast.

Jenni ha sido una mujer dura desde entonces que corre millas y millas incluso en esos días en que la nieve cubre todo Idaho. Quizá, de alguna manera, esté automedicándose contra problemas profundamente arraigados, pero quizá (parafraseando a Bill Clinton) no había nada de malo en Jenni que no pudiera ser arreglado por lo que Jenni tenía de bueno.

I'm supposed to spread my fingers as wide as they were with the rubber band, mash my palms hard into the floor, and pull myself down. When I do, I surprise even myself when my elbows straighten with barely any effort.

Experiment with your gears. Run slowly enough to sing as you go, then gradually pick up the pace until you can puff out only a few words at a time. Work your way up and down the gear range, mixing in a few short bursts so you remember what it feels like to go Full Burn.

Because that's the ugly truth about heroism: the tests don't start when you're ready or stop when you're tired. You don't get time-outs, warm-ups, or bathroom breaks. You may have a headache or be wearing the wrong pants or find yourself—the way Norina did—in a skirt and low heels in a school hallway becoming slick with your own blood.

you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.

that's okay; humans are terrific

What causes you to tense up is the unexpected; but as long as you know what you're in for, you can relax and chip away at the job.

Tu nep?rst?j skriet t?d??, ka k??sti vecs, Dipsijas D?mons vienm?r teica. Tu k??sti vecs t?d??, ka p?rst?j skriet.