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Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

George A. Sheehan

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George A. Sheehan
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: November 5
Died: 1993
Died: November 1
Cardiologist
Military Officer
Physician
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Spiritual
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Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.
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It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.
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If marathoners finish they win.
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Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.
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No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. My times become slower and slower, but the experience of the race is unchanged: each race a drama, each race a challenge, each race stretching me in one way or another, and each race telling me more about myself and others.
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Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.
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I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.
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On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked, unbidden. I simply rest, rest within myself, rest within the pure rhythm of my running. And I wait.
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Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.
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If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.
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Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
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Some think guts is sprinting at the end of a race. But guts is what got you there to begin with. Guts start back in the hills with 6 miles to go and you're thinking of how you can get out of this race without anyone noticing. Guts begin when you still have forty minutes of torture left and you're already hurting more than you ever remember.
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To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.
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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
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I have found my hero and he is me.
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I have a bumper sticker that Bowen created that says Regardless of my kids grades, they have an 'A' in my book'. Without play the child that still lives in all of us will always be incomplete. And not only physically, but creatively, intellectually, and spiritually as well.
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