Quotes About Resilience

Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone. —KEN CHLOUBER, Colorado miner and creator of

Hazte amigo del dolor, y nunca te encontrarás solo. KEN CHLOUBER, Minero de Colorado y creador de Leadville Trail 100

Así que Louis tuvo que aprender a sobrevivir comiendo ligero a lo largo de todo el día en lugar de llenarse con grandes comidas, a no permitirse estar sediento, como si todos los días se encontrara en medio de una carrera en marcha. El

Scott Jurek resumió el credo no oficial de los Jóvenes Pistoleros con una cita de William James que usaba para cerrar todos los emails que enviaba: «Más allá de lo extremo de la fatiga y el sufrimiento, encontramos cantidades de alivio y poder que nunca habíamos soñado con poseer; fuentes de fortaleza nunca antes puestas a prueba porque nunca habíamos empujado la puerta de oclusión». Conforme

Ultra god Scott Jurek summed up the Young Guns' unofficial creed with a quote from William James he stuck on the end of every e-mail he sent: "Beyond the very 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." As

Beyond the very 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.

The art of the hero wasn't about being brave; it was about being so competent that bravery wasn't an issue. You weren't supposed to go down for a good cause; the goal was to figure out a way not to go down at all.

while Jack Kirk—a.k.a. "the Dipsea Demon"—was still running the hellacious Dipsea Trail Race at age ninety-six. The race begins with a 671-step cliffside climb, which means a man nearly half as old as America was climbing a fifty-story staircase before running off into the woods. "You don't stop running because you get old," said the Demon. "You get old because you stop running.

Gradually, the backroom brawler named Mike Hickman disappeared. In his place arose Micah True, a name inspired by "the courageous and fearless spirit" of the Old Testament prophet Micah and the loyalty of an old mutt called True Dog.

That's because goats eat everything. Only the prickliest survive.

Christopher McDougall

Even Cliff Young, the sixty-three-year-old farmer who stunned Australia in 1983 by beating the best ultrarunners in the country in a 507-mile race from Sydney to Melbourne, did it all on beans, beer, and oatmeal ("I used to feed the calves by hand and they thought I was their mother," Young said. "I couldn't sleep too good those nights when I knew they would get slaughtered." He switched to grains and potatoes, and slept a whole lot better. Ran pretty good, too).

Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.

Don't fight the trail, take what it gives you. If you have a choice between one step or two between rocks, take three.

But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it, like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.

Snails were freedom fighters' food; you could harvest them on the run and they'd go dormant and keep fresh in your pockets until you were in the clear to cook. The

uno debe convertirse en una persona fuerte antes de convertirse en un corredor fuerte.

Caballo había pasado tantos años navegando estos caminos que tenía apodos para las piedras que encontraba bajo sus pies: algunas eran «ayudantes», porque te permitían dar el paso con potencia hacia delante; otras eran «embusteras», porque parecían ayudantes pero rodaban a traición cuando despegabas; y algunas eran «chingoncitos», pequeños cabrones listos para hacerte caer. —

Más allá de lo extremo de la fatiga y el sufrimiento, encontramos cantidades de alivio y poder que nunca habíamos soñado con poseer; fuentes de fortaleza nunca antes puestas a prueba porque nunca habíamos empujado la puerta de oclusión".

Hay algo realmente extraño en nosotros los humanos; no solo somos realmente buenos en carreras de resistencia, lo somos durante períodos de tiempo extremadamente largos. Somos máquinas hechas para correr. Y la máquina nunca se desgasta. «Uno

Until now, we would say that the Greeks fight like heroes. From now on, we will say that heroes fight like Greeks. —WINSTON CHURCHILL, 1941

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!