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• Less is more
  

- from Andy's (race director) final message

Pain is inevitable

"Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."

-- Unknown (Buddhist noble truth)

The Reaper

"Seasons don't fear the reaper. Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain..we can be like they are"

- Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper

Neither snow, nor rain...

I thought about this quote climbing in the snow before sunrise this morning.

"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these courageous couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"

According to the Internet, it was "said about 2500 years ago by the Greek historian, Herodotus. He said this adage during the war between the Greeks and Persians about 500 B.C."

Dreary affair

"Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."

-William Somerset Maugham

Readiness

"Man lives freely only by his readiness to die."

~Mohandas Gandhi

I shed no tear

"For mortals vanished from the day's sweet light. I shed no tear; rather I mourn for those who day and night live in death's fear."

~Greek Proverb

Do not fear death

"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life."

~Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), The Mother, 1932

The more you sweat

"The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle."

~ Author unknown

Taste of death

"Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once."

~William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

The most unjustified of all fears

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”

~Albert Einstein

Game of life

"I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life."

~Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon, 1929

Do what we want

"We've got to do what we want in life... because some day we'll be dead. And you can't do shit when you're dead!"

~Bob Lundy

You only live twice

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

IAN FLEMING, You Only Live Twice

On the edge

Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor. ~Homer, Iliad

Not everyone lives

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."
- A.Sachs

Worth watching

"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching"

Unknown Source

When death came

"'I'll just go around this rock and think
About it later.' That's what you said.
When death came, you said, 'I'll go there.'"

--Robert Bly, excerpt from "When William Stafford Died"

(Thanks Aaron!)

Save it and preserve it

"Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it." ~Plato

No concern to us

"Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist."

• Epicurus