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Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again, you must learn to trust again.
— Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven
But these notes make no pretense of being a record of fact. That isn't their object. They are merely notes of impressions, a record of vagrant thoughts, hopes, ideas that have floated through the mind of one present-day American. It is likely that I have not, and will not, put into them one truth, measuring by the ordinary standards of truth. It is my aim to be true to the essence of things. That's what I'm after.
— Sherwood Anderson, A Story Teller's Story
You will never feel the dark when u look at a light... Just look at the bright side of the things you will never mind your struggles
— Giridhar Alwar
Do not evaluate things when you feel happiness
— Mahmud A. Ibrahim
Only the simplest of facts can be accepted as an undisputed truth.
— Eraldo Banovac
Don’t tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Scientists are those who change facts
— Farid F. Ibrahim
Facts are always required to draw conclusions and make serious decisions.
— Sunday Adelaja
Good days came when the bad days gone.
— shiekha
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
— Arnold H. Glasow
The ocean is six miles deep.
— Joe Dunthorne, Submarine
It is easier to align our opinions with facts, than it is to align facts with our opinions.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
... those selling abortion don't want them to have [the facts]," Virginia said heatedly. "Besides the Supreme Court doesn't agree with you. They judges seem to think we poor women would fall apart if we knew the facts, so they decided women don't have the right to know the full truth." She shook her head. "They've made it legal to withhold vital information, even when a woman requests it, for heaven's sake!
— Francine Rivers, The Atonement Child
Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased —facts the new trues.
— Geoffrey Wood
To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching the walls and now and then peeping through the windows. Facts are the key.
— Julian Huxley, Essays in Popular Science
Every day that we read the news we have the possibility of being confronted with a fact about our world that is wildly different from what we thought we knew.
— Samuel Arbesman, The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.
— John Leslie
I have always loved to begin with the facts, to observe them, to walk in the light of experiment and demonstrate as much as possible, and to discuss the results.
— Giovanni Arduino
But what are facts, really, except things we’ve already proven? There could be lots of almost-facts out there, still waiting for proof.
— Kathryn Reiss, Intruders at Rivermead Manor: A Kit Mystery
Facts are a strange thing . . . when you know the facts to be true, they turn you into a revolutionary.
— Richard Diaz
History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.
— Daikichi Irokawa, Age of Hirohito: In Search of Modern Japan
The fact was never give a chance to the possibility
— dhaniRT
Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with.
— Robert Woodrow Wilson
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in errors.
— Robert Owen
A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a 'bundle of facts.' Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the 'law' because they act in that way.
— Joseph McCabe, The Existence Of God
Ive allways wondered what the 4 letters in the word LIFE stands for. I know understand that it stands for: Little Interesting Facts Everyday.
— Armin Houman
I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unexpected violently fortuitous character, and the kind of associations of suspect ideas they provoke.
— André Breton, Nadja
When the things get hard, there is a success near about.
— Lovely Goyal, I Love the Way You Love Me
For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes—as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden.[Upon hearing the Periodic Table explained in a first-tern university lecture.]
— C.P. Snow, The Search
Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.
— Gordon R. Dickson, Dorsai!
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body.
— Yann Martel, Beatrice and Virgil
Ive tried and tried and now I give up. I refuse to be the perfect friend to people that cant treat me with the same respect.
— Lovely Goyal
Life wasn't all fucking sunshine and rainbows. Real life was hard.
— Kendall Ryan, Hard to Love
The only measure of your success is in the number of people you have help.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Man cannot be content in his riches even if he has the whole world, there must be a frivolous extra desire.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, The Power of Creative Thoughts
all fiction is better with explosions' said Jared. 'Basic fact of life.
— Sarah Rees Brennan, The Spring Before I Met You
Nobody should ever try to second-guess history
—  the facts are fantastic enough.
There's no destiny
—  you just decide where you end.
In order for a god to be all-knowing, he must know even the fact of his own omniscience. But can he do this? He may know the totality of facts constituting the world; call this Y. But in order to know that he has mastered Y, he must also know that 'There are no facts unknown to me' — and this is beyond Y.It seems impossible that a god (or anyone) could ever be sure that nothing exists beyond his ken. It makes no sense to imagine [a god] arriving at this limit, peering beyond it (at what?), and satisfying himself no further facts exist. But without this certainty he cannot be sure of his own omniscience, and so does not know everything.A theist might argue that his god has created all the facts in existence. But an omniscient god would have to be sure of even this — that he is the sole creator, and that there are no facts unknown to him. And how could he come to this knowledge?
— Roland Puccetti
Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.
— Lu Xun
The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have been and always will be. There is a vast difference, which most people will never comprehend, between viewing future history as it will be and viewing it as one might like it to be. Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals ...
— Oswald Spengler, Aphorisms
They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.
— Glenn Greenwald
The value of an opinion is only measured by its user. It's ironic that the value of a fact is only measured by its observer.
— Lionel Suggs
We have heard talk enough. We have listened to all the drowsy, idealess, vapid sermons that we wish to hear. We have read your Bible and the works of your best minds. We have heard your prayers, your solemn groans and your reverential amens. All these amount to less than nothing. We want one fact. We beg at the doors of your churches for just one little fact. We pass our hats along your pews and under your pulpits and implore you for just one fact. We know all about your mouldy wonders and your stale miracles. We want a this year's fact. We ask only one. Give us one fact for charity. Your miracles are too ancient. The witnesses have been dead for nearly two thousand years.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, The Gods and Other Lectures
Memorization has gotten a bad rap recently. Lots of students, and even some educators, say that being able to reason is more important than knowing facts; and besides, why bother committing things to memory when you've got Google? My response to this - after I've finished inwardly groaning - is that of course reasoning is important, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't know facts as well. It's not like you have to choose between one or the other. Besides, facts give you a foundation on which to reason about things.
— Stefanie Weisman, The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College
If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.
— Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People
Odd Fellows Chamber Music for 2013 will be in October this yearTo Participants in the Odd Fellows Youth Chamber Music Project:Because an elevator is being installed at the Lodge, probably during August, we have to change the date:Instead of the two-week August program, we will be holding a weekend Baroque Festival in October, with an emphasis on Bach. There will be groups of all sizes and levels.The Program will take place on October 19th and 20th, 2013. We will rehearse from 9:30 AM to 12 Noon, and from 1 PM to 5PM, on Saturday. We’ll be feeding you during the lunch break.The performance will be at 3 PM on Sunday October 20th. Reception after.We’ll still be keeping one person on each part, and without Conductors. We will be sending out applications soon. Probably the deadline will be July 1st. Hope you all can make it.If you know of anyone who has played in the past who hasn’t gotten this invitation, please have them contact us. We’re trying not leave anyone out. Cathy O’ConnorTed SeitzReality has a well-known liberal bias.
— Stephen Co
Not that anybody cares two pins about history in these days.We've got rid of history
—  history is all my eye. But I've got to tell you the facts.
Facts are subversive
— I.F. Stone
Babies are born without knee-caps.
— Reader's Digest Association
The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons/The Adventure of the Crooked Man
What's that?""The laundry basket?""No, next to it.""I don't see anything next to it.""It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
— Aristotle
It's hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.
— Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.
— Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.
— Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
He made a good salary but he did not flaunt it. He’d been raised in Chicago proper by a Lithuanian Jewish mother who had grown up in poverty, telling stories, often, of extending a chicken to its fullest capacity, so as soon as a restaurant served his dish, he would promptly cut it in half and ask for a to-go container. Portions are too big anyway, he’d grumble, patting his waistline. He’d only give away his food if the corners were cleanly cut, as he believed a homeless person would just feel worse eating food with ragged bitemarks at the edges – as if, he said, they are dogs, or bacteria. Dignity, he said, lifting his half-lasagna into its box, is no detail.
— Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
LADIES!!!! You are not a SEXUAL OBJECT! - not a PUNCHING BAG _ not a target for EMOTIONAL ABUSE! You worth more than that! You were created by God to be a Partner to MEN not a SLAVE, to provide Strength and support to them not to be used and manipulated by them, to submit to them not to become fools in that process. You have your Dignity and Self Worth. Never sacrifice those!
— bolanle john
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.
— Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.
— William Shatner
The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.
— Dick Francis, Banker
There are some promotions in life, which, independent of the more substantial rewards they offer, acquire peculiar value and dignity from the coats and waistcoats connected with them. A field-marshal has his uniform; a bishop his silk apron; a counsellor his silk gown; a beadle his cocked hat. Strip the bishop of his apron, or the beadle of his hat and lace; what are they? Men. Mere men. Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
— Charles Dickens, Oliver Twistder Ungekürzte Originaltext
Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day’s newspaper.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
The most important thing is our dignity. If we have that we can survive on bread and water.
— Richard Flanagan, Notes on an Exodus
He’d valued his dignity more than his own life.
— Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
Shh,” Cobweb said with a well-time jab of the elbow, “we might be able to get some dignity out of this, if we play our cards right.
— Lisa Mantchev, So Silver Bright
She saw that supreme dignity - and love - lay in tolerance.
— Antonia Fraser, King Charles II
Women of dignity know when to stop expecting loyalty when he won't even give you honesty.
— Shannon L. Alder
How to hold the dignity; one should prevent, to be a toy in the hands of others. Consequently, one stands independently with its dignity; otherwise toy stays toy for another's purpose and pleasure, nothing else.
— Ehsan Sehgal
There is plenty of dignity in just holding on
— Steven Erikson, The Crippled God
When you meet familiarity which demeans true integrity, run away!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
the very least we can live with is an agreement that does not reduce us to slaves of imposition, but makes us partners of consent. Yes, we are compelled to make peace, we submit to force majeure, but leave us at least a piece of clothing to cover our nudity. This is the motivation behind every formula of diplomatic contrivance that is sometimes described as face-saving, and wise indeed is the victor who knows that, in order to shield his own rear from the elements, he must not denude his opponents.
— Wole Soyinka, Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World
When we spend time with people who live in extreme poverty, and we listen to their stories, it creates dignity and connectedness - something they usually lack.
— Chris Marlow, Doing Good Is Simple: Making a Difference Right Where You Are
Familiarity increases carnality.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
To respect my nature is to know my nature.
— Petra Hermans, Voor een betere wereld
It is the lowered head that makes her seem less noble than, say, a horse, or a deer surprised in the woods. More exactly, it is her lowered head and neck. As she stands still, the top of her head is level with her back, or even a little lower, and so she seems to be hanging her head in discouragement, embarrassment, or shame. There is at least a suggestion of humility and dullness about her. But all these suggestions are false.
— Lydia Davis, Can't and Won't: Stories
We may now understand better, too, why my father was so fond of the story of the butler who failed to panic on discovering a tiger under the dining table; it was because he knew instinctively that somewhere in this story lay the kernel of what true ‘dignity’ is.
— Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
We will not run," Paul said. "We'll move with dignity. We'll do what must be done.
— Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity.
— G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
They that live at the source of a great river shall always take the great river for granted but they that live at the estuary of the great river shall always watch the great river in awe and admiration!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Life is harder than you thought, you must face the challenges that comes to your life and fight with Love and Dignity in-order to have a successful life.
— Lenny Ramirez
She will at least be decently clothed as she waits. Tomorrow I shall find her a brush and powder and whatever else a woman of her dignity requires.” Fin rolled her eyes. “Is ‘dignity’ what you call it?” Jeannot offered her his hand. Fin took it and pulled herself up from the deck. She was barefoot and her pants and shirt were stained with everything from blood to oakum to lampblack. She stretched her shirt out between her hands and considered its mottle of stains. “I’m not dignified?” she asked. When Fin looked up, Jeannot had an eyebrow cocked high and one side of his mouth was curled in amusement. “Where you are concerned, much requires redefinition.
— A.S. Peterson, Fiddler's Green
A central part of the torturer’s craft is to make his job easier by stripping the victim of protective dignity.
— Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Dignity is to have a dream, a strong one, which gives you a vision, a world where you have a place, where whatever it is you have to contribute makes a difference.
— Fatema Mernissi
It’s always better to sit on your dignity in private than to stand on it in public.
— Mark  Lawrence, Prince of Fools
You ask me to make a promise? I am in a cage. No promise I make is trustworthy because I would do anything to be rid of this cage. Promise me that you will not treat me like an animal or a spectacle, and I will see what I can do.
— J.M. McDermott, Straggletaggle
Though one’s occupation for his or her livelihood involves physical work or menial labour, it is held that the job carries dignity, compared to the jobs that involve more intellect than body.
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The concept of dignity of labour took people off the street.
— Sunday Adelaja
One of the major contributions of the Protestant faith to the world is the culture of dignity of labour.
— Sunday Adelaja
DIGNITY OF LABOR indicates that all types of jobs are respected equally.
— Sunday Adelaja
Remember the son of whom you are because a good name is better than gold or silver
— Emmanuel Olawale, The Flavor of Favor: Quest for the American Dream. A Memoir
I'd seriously contemplated a real collar - a sparkly green one - if only because I was sure it would offend his dignity.
— Kelley Armstrong, Omens
All labor has dignity.
— Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
There’s a dignity in consequences.
— James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn
A palm-leaf carriage should move slowly, or else it loses its dignity.
— Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book
Don’t a man has serf esteem, it’s only woman who is sign of dignity, don’t man have their own?
— Junaid Raza
On the one hand the younger son realizes that he has lost the dignity of his sonship, but at the same time that sense of lost dignity makes him also aware that he is indeed the son who had dignity to lose," (pp. 49).
— Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
The god abandons AntonyWhen at the hour of midnight an invisible choir is suddenly heard passingwith exquisite music, with voices ― Do not lament your fortune that at last subsides, your life’s work that has failed, your schemes that have proved illusions. But like a man prepared, like a brave man, bid farewell to her, to Alexandria who is departing. Above all, do not delude yourself, do not say that it is a dream, that your ear was mistaken. Do not condescend to such empty hopes. Like a man for long prepared, like a brave man, like the man who was worthy of such a city, go to the window firmly, and listen with emotion but not with the prayers and complaints of the coward (Ah! supreme rapture!) listen to the notes, to the exquisite instruments of the mystic choir,and bid farewell to her, to Alexandria whom you are losing.
— Constantinos P. Cavafis, Selected Poems
Do not exchange your dignity for popularity.
— Steve Maraboli
It’s a matter of dignity,” the Chief explained. “At a certain point, that’s all you have left.
— Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
To assert dignity is to lose it.
— Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men
one of the most painful things in life is to be considered as meaningless in an environment where you think you are truly meaningful
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?
we may have a better reflection of ourselves in the mirror depending on how thick the opaque substance behind it is; the lighter the substance, the poorer the image; the thicker the substance,the better the image.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?
We are quiet, contemplative people, and our behaviour in the field is relatively aristocratic. Running is not necessarily beneath our dignity but it is in any case pointless because the flies move much too fast. Consequencly, we stand still, as if on guard, and moreover almost exclusively in blazing sunshine, little breeze and fragrant flowers. Passersby can therefore easily get the impression that the fly hunter is a convalescent of some kind, momentarily lost in meditation. This is not wholly inaccurate.
— Fredrik Sjöberg, The Fly Trap
What humanity wants most is crude sensation.Really? I thought what humanity wanted most was dignity.
— Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House
The thing about dignity: it can be destroyed, but not taken unless it's given away. It can always be beautified.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
The women in porn plead to be abused. They call themselves whores and sluts. They are beaten and penetrated by groups of men. Their faces are covered with semen from dozens of masturbating men, their anuses are penetrated repeatedly by lines of partners, and they are raped. The women portrayed in the films exist to fulfill the desire of men in the most degrading and painful way possible. Nearly all porn dialogue includes lines from women such as I am a cunt, I am a bitch. I am a whore. I am a slut.
— Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
I'm not obliged to defend your dignity. Provided you have any.
— Rachel Caine, Last Breath
Once upon a time, my government turned my city into a police state, kidnapped me, and tortured me. When I got free, I decided that the problem wasn’t the system, but who was running it. Bad guys had gotten into places of high office. We needed good apples. I worked my butt off to get people to vote for good apples. We had elections. We installed the kind of apples everyone agreed would be the kind of apples we could be proud of. They said good things. A few real dirtbags like Carrie Johnstone lost their jobs.	And then, well, the good apples turned out to act pretty much exactly like the bad apples. Oh, they had reasons. There were emergencies. Circumstances. It was all really regrettable. 	But there were always emergencies, weren’t there?
— Cory Doctorow, Homeland
Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself
— Carolyn Wells, Patty at Home
The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.
— Dian Fossey
Frank, I ran into Gladys and Billy at the store yesterday. Do you know what he said to me?"The girls went very quiet. Frank didn't look up."Hello?" he asked, and kept rubbing Henry's knife.Dotty hit him with her rag. "He said that. And so did she. But the important part was when he said, 'Frank ever get that door open?' Do you know what I said? What I said was--Are you ready for this? I said, 'No,'""Ah" Frank said. He lifted Henry's knife up to his mouth and dabbed the blade with his tongue. "That's my honest wife. I appreciate you lookin' out for my dignity.
— N.D. Wilson, 100 Cupboards
Someone said: "“Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are"or "tell me who is your friend and I'll tell you who you are" ...etc..My life experience oppose the above mentioned sayings.I would say, "Tell me how do you respond to gossip and I will tell you who you are" "Tell me how do you solve your problems and I'll tell you who you are
— Mahsati Abdul
It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes
— John Green
Class never runs scared.It is sure-footed and confident.It can handle anything that comes along.Class has a sense of humor.It knows a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations.Class never makes excuses.It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes.Class knows that good manners are nothing more than a series of small, inconsequential sacrifices.Class bespeaks an aristocracy that has nothing to do with ancestors or money.Some wealthy “blue bloods” have no class, while individuals who are struggling to make ends meet are loaded with it.Class is real.It can’t be faked.Class never tried to build itself by tearing others down.Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.Class can “walk with kings and keep it’s virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.” Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.If you have class, you’ve got it made.If you don’t have class, no matter what else you have, it doesn’t make any difference.
— Ann Landers
How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?
— Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse
Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy. Sometimes we don't feel that way because of the wounds and the scars we carry from the past or because of the uncertainty of the future. It is doubtful that we came to feel undeserving on our own. We were helped to feel unworthy. We were taught it in a thousand ways when we were little, and we learned our lessons well.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Haste denies all acts their dignity.
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
— Immanuel Kant
There was hardly a touch of earth in her love for Clare. To her sublime trustfulness he was all that goodness could be—knew all that a guide, philosopher, and friend should know. She thought every line in the contour of his person the perfection of masculine beauty, his soul the soul of a saint, his intellect that of a seer. The wisdom of her love for him, as love, sustained her dignity; she seemed to be wearing a crown. The compassion of his love for her, as she saw it, made her lift up her heart to him in devotion. He would sometimes catch her large, worshipful eyes, that had no bottom to them looking at him from their depths, as if she saw something immortal before her.
— Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
I also remember being struck by de Sade's will, in which he asked that his ashes be scattered to the four corners of the earth in the hope that humankind would forget both his writings and his name. I'd like to be able to make that demand; commemorative ceremonies are not only false but dangerous, as are all statues of famous men. Long live forgetfulness, I've always said—the only dignity I see is in oblivion.
— Luis Buñuel, My Last Sigh
Dignity is a bridge.It needs two sides that, being different, distinct and distant become one in the bridgewithout ceasing to be different and distinct, but ceasing already to be distant.
— Zapatistas
As she continues to answer questions about her employment, all these words mean little more to her now than I AM SOPHISTICATED, I AM WORTHY, I AM SOPHISTICATED, I AM WORTHY. She attempts the posture of a politician's wife, shoulders held back, dignifIed yet modest.
— Tania James, Atlas of Unknowns
All lived lives of dignity and repression.
— Mary Lou Foster Cooper
…a man's value should be gauged by how much value he places on the entire concept of humanity.” - Dami K.
— Ray Anyasi, To Live Again
Everything. Everywhere. Every moment. That is the scope of God's call on our lives, and that is the dignity our lives enjoy.
— John G. Stackhouse Jr., Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World
I can’t do nothing for you either, Billy. You know that. None of us can. You got to understand that as soon as a man goes to help somebody, he leaves himself wide open. He has to be cagey, Billy, you should know that as well as anyone. What could I do? I can’t fix your stuttering. I can’t wipe the razorblade scars off your wrists or the cigarette burns off the back of your hands. I can’t give you a new mother. And as far as the nurse riding you like this, rubbing your nose in your weakness till what little dignity you got left is gone and you shrink up to nothing from humiliation, I can’t do anything about that, either.
— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
— Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life — and for me, for writing as whole. I believe many runners would agree
— Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.
— Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.
— Lemony Snicket
I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.
— Marie Lu, Prodigy
Now... Just run.' [said the Doctor.]One of the things you learn very quickly around the Doctor is never to question him when he says that word. You just run. It's almost like breathing.
— James Goss, Doctor Who: Dead of Winter
Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith. Faith is what kepes us going when nothing else will. Faith is the emotion that will give you victory over your past, the demons in your soul, & all of those voices that tell you what you can & cannot do & can & cannot be.
— John Bingham
Of course it was painful, and there were times when, emotionally, I just wanted to chuck it all. But pain seems to be a precondition for this kind of sport. If pain weren't involved, who in the world would ever go to the trouble of taking part in sports like the triathlon or the marathon, which demand such an investment of time and energy? It's precisely because of the pain, precisely because we want to overcome that pain, that we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive--or at least a partial sense of it. Your quality of experience is based not on standards such as time or ranking, but on finally awakening to an awareness of the fluidity within action itself.
— Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put one foot in front of the other, and come to the same conclusion I did: I run because it always takes me where I want to go.
— Dean Karnazes, Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. In running the mind flees with the body, the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.
— Joyce Carol Oates
...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 on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you've got, being patient and forgiving and... undemanding...maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.
— Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
I came back, Uncle Eddie. Last year, after the Henley, I could have gone to any school in the world -- I could have done anything, but I came back." "You ran away, Katarina." "And now I'm back." "You're still running.
— Ally Carter, Uncommon Criminals
Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.
— Dean Karnazes
Running to him was real; the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as a diamond; it made him weary behond comprehension. But it also made him free.
— John L. Parker Jr.
Beckendorf, whose legs were now working fine (nothing like being chased by a huge monster to get your body back in order) shook his head and gasped for breath. “You shouldn’t have turned it on! It’s unstable! After a few years, automatons go wild!
— Rick Riordan, The Demigod Files
As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?...There'll likely be a point of diminishing returns, a point where my strength will begin to wane. Until then, I'll just keep plodding onward, putting one foot in front of the other to the best of my ability. Smiling the entire time.
— Dean Karnazes, Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
Running is real and relatively simple…but it ain't easy.
— Mark Will-Weber
How to run an ultramarathon ? Puff out your chest, put one foot in front of the other, and don't stop till you cross the finish line.
— Dean Karnazes, Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.
— James Dyson
Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
— Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go
I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.
— Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
We're still on the run. That's for sure.Right on. This time we're on.And we won't stop till we win.
— Koushun Takami, Battle Royale
There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further yet, and what you have before you, laid bare, is the soul.
— Kristin Armstrong
If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.
— Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
There 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 they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, give her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you.” Ask nothing from your running, in other words, and you’ll get more than you ever imagined.
— Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
But I also realize that winning doesn't always mean getting first place
—  it means getting the best out of yourself.
But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.
— Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Long Distance training can be a positive & constructive form of selfishness. After all, once you're at the starting line, you're there by yourself. No one can run a single step for you. No one can jump in & help you. No one but you can make the decisions about what to do to keep going. It's all up to you.
— John Bingham
But 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 motivated solely by size 6 jeans: get on the scale, get depressed, get your headphones on, and get it over with. But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it, like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.
— Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.
— Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Every run is a work of art, a drawing on each day's canvas. Some runs are shouts and some runs are whispers. Some runs are eulogies and others celebrations. When you're angry, a run can be a sharp slap in the face. When happy, a run is your song. And when your running progresses enough to become the chrysalis through which your life is viewed, motivation is almost beside the point. Rather, it's running that motivates you for everything else the day holds.
— Dagny Scott Barrios, Runner's World Complete Book of Women's Running: The Best Advice to Get Started, Stay Motivated, Lose Weight, Run Injury-Free, Be Safe, and Train for Any Distance
Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.
— Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Whatever you may be missing right now - a person, a place, a feeling, maybe you are injured and missing running - whatever it is, have peace and take heart - remember that any goodbye makes room for a hello.
— Kristin Armstrong
-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, and in return ask the Great Spirit to match their strength with some of his own.
— Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Every day is a fresh start
—  don't measure yourself by yesterday's troubles.
Hey listen, I already have a complete list of silver linings. It's the goddamn cloud that's killin me.
— John L. Parker Jr.
The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country
—  you're one with the mud.
He wanted to impart some of the truths Bruce Denton had taught him, that you dont' become a runner by winning a morning workout. The only true way is to marshal the ferocity of your ambition over the course of many days, weeks, months, and (if you could finally come to accept it) years. The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials. How could he make them understand?
— John L. Parker Jr.
You would think it best to save your breath for running, but I often find screaming helps.
— Mark  Lawrence, Prince of Fools
At paces that might stun and dismay the religious jogger, the runners easily kept up all manner of chatter and horseplay. When they occasionally blew by a huffing fatty or an aging road runner, they automatically toned down the banter to avoid overwhelming, to preclude the appearance of show boating (not that they slowed in the slightest). They in fact respected these distant cousins of the spirit, who, among all people, had some modicum of insight into their own days and ways. But the runners resembled them only in the sense that a puma resembles a pussy cat. It is the difference between stretching lazily on the carpet and prowling the jungle for fresh red meat.
— John L. Parker Jr.
The freedom of Cross Country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature.
— Lynn Jennings
Even though I can’t tell others whether they should chase their marathon dreams, I highly recommend they do something completely out of character, something they never in a million years thought they’d do, something they may fail miserably at. Because sometimes the places where you end up finding your true self are the places you never thought to look. That, and I don’t want to be the only one who sucks at something.
— Dawn Dais, The Nonrunner's Marathon Guide for Women: Get Off Your Butt and On with Your Training
I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!
— Kathrine Switzer, Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports
Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to burn sugar, which is the last thing a distance runner wants. You've got enough fat stored to run to California, so the more you train your body to burn fat instead of sugar, the longer your limited sugar tank is going to last."-The way to activate your fat-burning furnace is by staying below your aerobic threshold--your hard-breathing point--during your endurance runs.
— Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
I don't run to add days to my life, I run to add life to my days.
— Ronald Rook
Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.
— Tim Noakes, Lore of Running
We 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.
— Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Distance 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 find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else. And like everything else we love-everything we sentimentally call our 'passions' and 'desires'-it's really an encoded ancestral necessity. We were born to run; we were born because we run.
— Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn’t live to love anything else…We were born to run; we were born because we run
— Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Try 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 are like that: you’re floating along in a Shakespearean Arden paradise and expect to see nymphs and fluteboys, then suddenly you’re struggling in a hot broiling sun of hell in dust and nettles and poison oak… just like life.
— Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
An itchy feeling began to work its way through my body, as though a thousand mosquitoes were circulating through my blood, biting me from the inside, making me want to scream, jump, squirm. I ran.
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time. When we pass each other on the road, we listen to the rhythm of each other's breathing, and sense the way the other person is ticking away the moments.
— Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
He was onto something. Something huge. It wasn't just how to run; it was how to live, the essence of who we are as a species and what we're meant to be.
— Christopher McDougall
Imagine your kid is running into the street and you have to sprint after her in bare feet," Eric told me when I picked up my training with him after my time with Ken. "You'll automatically lock into perfect form--you'll be up on your forefeet, with your back erect, head steady, arms high, elbows driving, and feet touching down quickly on the forefoot and kicking back toward your butt."You can't run uphill powerfully with poor biomechanics," Eric explained.
— Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Vigil couldn't quite put his finger on it, but his gut kept telling him that 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 on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you got, being patient and forgiving and undemanding.
— Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up," Bannister said. "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 than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle - when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
— Christopher McDougall
Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.
— Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen