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Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa,…

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The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running…
Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just…
The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and…
Faced with the almost inescapable conclusion that it had been selling lemons, Nike shifted into make-lemonade mode. Jeff Pisciotta became head of…
We were born to run; we were born because we run.
If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.
The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.
Were designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. Whats built into that kind of running is a…
Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a punishment for…
There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is…
We are the biggest sissies in the jungle. Every other animal is stronger than we are - they have fangs, they have…

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My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the… — Ibn Arabi
Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or… — Gerard De Nerval
Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience, then it races like a… — Simon Birch
Zinedine Zidane could be a champion sumo wrestler. He can run like a crab or a gazelle. — Howard Wilkinson
Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't… — Charles Lamb
Nature is very clear on this. In fact, there's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks everyday. Now… — Tom Shadyac
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running. — Unknown Author
The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake… — Alison Fell
With each day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time,… — Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
I have never seen such a perfectly formed animal. Beautiful and graceful like a gazelle, he burned hot and wild with the… — Lynn Andrews
The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood. — Heinrich Heine
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon… — William S. Burroughs

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