Love And Truth Quote by George Sheehan

“The runner is coming to know, or will know if he runs enough...that the universe is the smallest divisible unit.”

— George Sheehan

“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

“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

“I myself am my only obstacle to perfection,” wrote Kierkegaard.”

— George Sheehan

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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