The Pants of Perspective Quotes

“I ran to eat cake. I ran to be free. I ran to freely eat cake. I ran to remind myself what it was like to be a kid – exhilarated and entirely immersed in the moment.”
― Anna McNuff, The Pants of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 Kilometre Running Adventure through the Wilds of New Zealand

“I mean, my home in London would always be a home, but really I felt I could live anywhere, so long as I was surrounded by love and filled with a sense of purpose. I hoped that one day I’d be anchored somewhere too.”
― Anna McNuff, The Pants of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 Kilometre Running Adventure through the Wilds of New Zealand

“Doing a one eighty is when you turn yourself a full one hundred and eighty degrees and take another look at the situation. You realise there must be another way to see things. Normally, a better way. As soon as you “do the one eighty” life becomes a lot more fun.”
― Anna McNuff, The Pants of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 Kilometre Running Adventure through the Wilds of New Zealand

“shocking life lesson was beginning to dawn on me – if you work hard for something, you don’t always get what you want. And that’s okay, but it stings like a bitch.”
― Anna McNuff, The Pants of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 Kilometre Running Adventure through the Wilds of New Zealand

“For someone who was so hard on themselves, who moved through life wondering whether they could perhaps ‘be’ something a little more than they were – there was nothing more I could be in that moment. Nothing more I wished to be. No one else on the planet I would rather be. There was no striving. No belief that the grass was greener. No envy, jealousy, no discontent, no ungratefulness. It was like nothing else I had ever experienced before. It wasn’t elation. Nor joy. In fact, I wasn’t entirely sure what the emotion was. And then I recognised it. It was contentment. And with every inhalation it nourished me.”
― Anna McNuff, The Pants of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 Kilometre Running Adventure through the Wilds of New Zealand

“No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way,’ and smiled.”
― Anna McNuff, The Pants of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 Kilometre Running Adventure through the Wilds of New Zealand

“Everyday happiness just had to take precedence over a dream that may or may not make me happy in the long run.”
― Anna McNuff, The Pants of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 Kilometre Running Adventure through the Wilds of New Zealand

“contentment is better than any form of ecstasy.”
― Anna McNuff, The Pants of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 Kilometre Running Adventure through the Wilds of New Zealand