“Courage, then, has nothing to do with a single act of bravery. Courage is how one lives, not one specific incident. Just as mortal sin is a lifestyle, not one startling transgression. Some,” — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“The runner is coming to know, or will know if he runs enough...that the universe is the smallest divisible unit.” — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“Courage, then, has nothing to do with a single act of bravery. Courage is how one lives, not one specific incident. Just as mortal… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“When I was young, I was afflicted with what my aunt called “convenient deafness.” I still am. I have the ability to tune out… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“The 5-year-old sees that Paradise correctly, not in technology but in the fairy story, in the great myths that control and guide our lives.… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“There were a lot of people in the service,” says Dickey, “who cried when they were discharged because they knew they would have to… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“The trouble with this country,” the late John Berryman once told fellow poet James Dickey, “is that a man can live his entire life… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“Running is just such a monestary-- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.” — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“Disease, then, is one of those bad experiences that turns information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. The bad experiences that make you love… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“If you think that life has passed you by, or, even worse, that you are living someone else’s life, you can still prove the… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“Boredom, like beauty, is in the mind of the beholder. ’There is no such thing as an uninteresting subject,’ said Chesterton. ’The only thing… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“Thomas Merton, another solitary, understood that. The beginning of freedom, he wrote, is not liberation from the body but liberation from the mind. We… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
