Christopher McDougallWe say the rarajipari is the game of life, ' Angel said. 'You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.376Life
Christopher McDougallSometimes,' she said, 'it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man. ✨ Christopher McDougall (2010). Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest ra… ▶322ReadingTime
Christopher McDougallWhen I'm out on a long run, she continued, the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't going blehblehbleh all the time. Everything quiets do… ▶323LifeLoveThought
Christopher McDougallOnly recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies and plunked them into an artifi… ▶356DeathLifeReading
Christopher McDougallTry the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just fall into a trance as the ground zips by, Kerouac wrote. Trails ar… ▶301Life
Christopher McDougallEvery morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster t… ▶335Reading
Christopher McDougallRunning should be free, man.324Philosophy
Christopher McDougallAsk nothing from your running, and you'll get more than you ever imagined! ✨ Christopher McDougall (2010). Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest… ▶302Reading
Christopher McDougall-The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other but to be with each other. -The Hopis consider running a form of prayer; they offer every step as a sacrifice to a loved one, … ▶291LoveReflection
Christopher McDougallYou don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running. ✨ Christopher McDougall (2010). Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the g… ▶359Reading
Christopher McDougallIf you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them. ✨ Christopher McDougall (2010). Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, a… ▶271Reading
Christopher McDougallI have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe companies are in the business of … ▶272PoliticsThoughtTruth
Christopher McDougallIf you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom. ✨ Christopher McDougall (2010). Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the … ▶316Reading
Christopher McDougallPerhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it w… ▶307HumanityLifeReading
Christopher McDougallThe Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that could last not two miles, not two hours, but two full day… ▶274Reading
Christopher McDougallBut yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through. For them, running was a miserable two miles… ▶307Truth
Christopher McDougallIf you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and vitality and youthfulness and eternal vigor. It's only… ▶285LifeReadingSadness
Christopher McDougallWe are the biggest sissies in the jungle. Every other animal is stronger than we are - they have fangs, they have claws, they have nimbleness, they have speed. We think Usain Bolt… ▶263PoliticsThought
Christopher McDougallWe run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time. ✨ FaceBook post byChristopher McDougall from Jan 31, 2011… ▶286ReadingTime
Christopher McDougall...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip … ▶277Love
Christopher McDougallYou don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless. ✨ Christopher McDougall (2010). Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world ha… ▶255Reading
Christopher McDougallWe've got a motto here-you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can. ✨ Christopher McDougall (2010). Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the … ▶3010ReadingThought
Christopher McDougallDistance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to… ▶2910LifeLoveReading
Christopher McDougallMake friends with pain, and you will never be alone.~Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 mile race ✨ Christopher McDougall (2010). Born to Ru… ▶234ReadingSadness
Christopher McDougallIf you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are. ✨ Christopher McDougall (2010). Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra… ▶2910ReadingThought
Christopher McDougallWe wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other. ✨ … ▶201LifeLoveReading
Christopher McDougallThere are two goddesses in your heart,” he told them. “The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So the… ▶213LovePhilosophyThought
Christopher McDougallThere is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is you get rid of the shoes, you get rid of the stress, yo… ▶202Humanity
Christopher McDougallThe only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it. ✨ Christopher McDougall (2010). Born to Run: The hidden trib… ▶2610LoveReading
Christopher McDougallBlaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault. ✨ Christopher McDougall (2009). Born to Run, p.179, … ▶193Truth
