The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
Success has a very narrow definition in professional athletics: medals and records, and pursuit of anything outside of that is looked down upon.
Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day.
Anyone can train hard. Do you have the discipline to recover?
When you're a dreamer, heart break and failure come with the territory, but I can tell you it's worth it, because it's a way of living that is both moving and memorable.
I learned a long time ago that the last thing any woman should be thinking about is being 'skinny' or 'thin. ' To me, those words imply weakness, fragility, the inability to stand firm in a storm. If you want to change your body, aim for 'athletic. ' An athletic body is healthy, strong, and built to thrive. An athletic body can take many shapes.
When you recognize that failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things.
There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us.
Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.
The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.
If there is a lack of specificity in Grossman's description of the town and the walkers, and if the story perhaps sometimes becomes lost and confusing, then it is because the landscape and its inhabitants are really shadows, creatures of an interior world, whose journey and whose quest are within. Falling Out of Time is short, and clearly a deeply personal book, but its importance and impact ought not to be underestimated.