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Amy Grant Singer, Songwriter
Running

"If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh."

Children Running Philosophy
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Rollo May Psychologist, Author
Running

"Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs - not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves."

Men Running Exercise
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Katie Couric Journalist
Running

"It's fine to be on the hamster wheel, running and running, trying to grab the brass ring or whatever you define as success, but your relationships, that's really all that matters when it's all said and done."

Trying Running Wheels
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Nikola Tesla Inventor, Electrical Engineer
Running

"Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often performed at random but always attesting extraordinary vigor and resource. Starting from a few known elements, he would make their combinations and permutations, tabulate them and run through the whole list, completing test after test with incredible rapidity until he obtained a clue. His mind was dominated by one idea, to leave no stone unturned, to exhaust every possibility."

Running Science Success
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Louise Hay Author, Motivational Speaker
Running

"Don't run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us. As we learn from them, our lives change for the better."

Running Life Changing Treasure
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Vincent de Paul Saint, Priest
Running

"It is a good sign when He burdens us with [crosses] and we carry them well, but woe to the person who runs away from them, for he will find such heavy ones that they will overwhelm him."

Running Faith Woe
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Marilyn Monroe Actress, Model
Running

"Joe: You don't want me, Sugar. I'm a liar and a phony. A saxophone player. One of those no-goodniks you keep running away from. Sugar: I know, every time. Joe: Sugar, do yourself a favor. Go back to where the millionaires are, the sweet end of the lollipop, not the cole slaw in the face, the old socks and the squeezed-out tube of toothpaste. Sugar: That's right. Pour it on. Talk me out of it. (She grabs him to kiss him.)"

Running Sweet Liars
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Elsie de Wolfe Interior Designer
Running

"I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing."

Writing Running Light
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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
Running

"You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run."

Running Fire Going Away
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