What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

by Haruki Murakami

“Muscles are hard to get and easy to lose. Fat is easy to get and hard to lose.”

The body is an extremely practical system. You have to let it experience intermittent pain over time, and then the body will get the point.

It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy pride.

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.