Exercise: you don't have time not to
Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.
The desire to run comes from deep within us — from the unconscious, the intuitive, the instinctive. And that desire becomes a passion when the runner learns to race. Then, the race becomes all — the lovemaking of the runner.
The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit
Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.
The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to discipline the body, to find courage, to renew faith and to become one's own person, utterly and completely.