January 1, 2011
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”

— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)

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at 8:21 pm
October 30, 2010
“My dear friend, when grief presses you to the dust, worship there.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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at 2:36 am
August 15, 2010
“I disagree with the people who think the word dog should look like a dog. Even worse are people who think the word dog should bark.”

— Massimo Vignelli

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at 8:15 pm
August 9, 2010
“In literature, our problem lies squarely with our manner of absorption rather than with the extent of our consumption.”

— Alain de Botton (via Twitter)

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at 10:02 pm
July 22, 2010
(and today)
Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo; the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end... because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was, when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going... because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.
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at 11:13 pm
July 13, 2010
“…sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”

— Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, p.113. (The thought lingered in my head last night and I could not sleep.)

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at 10:06 am
June 12, 2010
Saturday

“Running everyday is kind of a lifeline for me, so I’m not going to lay off or quit just because I’m busy. If I used to being busy as an excuse not to run, I’d never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished.” - Haruki Murakami; What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, page 73.

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Thoughts this morning (thanks, Dad):

  • Discipline begins with the will.
  • Always have the end goal in mind. If you keep thinking of the process and how potentially difficult it can be, you will end up tossing your plans out the window.
  • So with that in mind (and heart), I desire for things to go back on track today. No day but today!
  • I’m keeping my reasons ‘nicely polished’ and in tow every single day.
  • 12 June 2010 is Day 1.

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at 10:03 am