Running Home Quotes

“People think long-distance running is about speed, about getting from point A to B as fast as possible, but really it’s about slowing down.”
― Katie Arnold, Running Home

“I’ve run to win and to be loved and I’ve run not to be noticed but to disappear, into the forests and my own heart. Some days I can no longer tell if running is madness or the clearest kind of sanity.”
― Katie Arnold, Running Home

“Running teaches us to balance the negative and positive and to live in beauty and balance.”
― Katie Arnold, Running Home

“I want to see if it’s possible to race simply to run—not to win. And if I run this way, will I win?”
― Katie Arnold, Running Home

“Ultra running isn’t a mystery—it’s hard work and human nature. I believe anyone can do it. If it’s in you, if you want it, you can do it. You can run 30 miles, 50 miles, 100 miles. You don’t have to look like a runner—anyone can be a runner. You don’t have to be fast, you don’t have to know anything. You just have to start small and break it down.

You will be afraid. You’ll worry about wild animals and strangers and getting injured and losing everything. This is natural. This is resistance. You’re stronger than you think you are. Keep going.”
― Katie Arnold, Running Home

“I would like to beg you…to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as though they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. —RAINER MARIA RILKE”
― Katie Arnold, Running Home

“Some days I can no longer tell if running is madness or the clearest kind of sanity.”
― Katie Arnold, Running Home