"Some seek the comfort of their therapist’s office, others head for the corner pub, but I chose running as my therapy."
- Dean Karnazes
Healing
"Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship, or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran."
- Dean Karnazes
Connection to Earth
"Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived."
- Dean Karnazes
Inner Peace
"The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless."
- Dean Karnazes
Strength
"The marathon is an opportunity for redemption. Opportunity, because the outcome is uncertain. Opportunity, because it is up to you, and only you, to make it happen."
- Dean Karnazes
Empowerment
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity