What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

by Haruki Murakami

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you start to think, Man this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The hurt part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand any more is up to the runner himself.

Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

If something interested me, and I could study it at my own pace and approach it the way I liked,