I hela mitt liv har jag samlat ihop mina tankar i korta fraser, aforismer eller ”kvällstidningsrubriker”, som fångar min syn och uppfattning i en kort mening som är lätt att komma ihåg. På sistone har jag lärt mig att man gör så även inom Zen, beskriver ett resonemang eller en inbjudan till att kontemplera i slogans.
Här är några av mina favoriter:
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Ziglar
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
Jack Dixon
Det är bättre att kommunicera än att inte kommunicera.
Måns Kämpe
Think ahead, travel light, and leave all your fears behind you.
Børge Ousland
Turen förföljer den skicklige.
Okänd
Att sätta ett negativt mål är som att gå och handla med en lista på saker som du inte vill köpa.
Joseph O’Connor och Andrea Lages
Det är bara när klockan stoppas som tiden blir levande.
William Faulkner
Allt är en fråga om perspektiv.
Måns Kämpe
Om vi tar vara på ögonblicken tar åren vara på sig själva.
Maria Edgeworth
Det är helt OK att bli vuxen, bara man inte behöver sluta vara barn.
Måns Kämpe
Tiden förändrar oss inte, den avslöjar oss bara.
Max Frisch
The will to win means nothing if you haven’t the will to prepare.
Juma Ikangaa
You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can’t know what’s coming.
Frank Shorter
We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.
Emil Zatopek
Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race!
Ron Hill
We can’t all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogers
You have run all the strength, all the superficial fitness out of yourself, and it really comes down to what’s left inside you. To be able to draw deep and pull something out of yourself is one of the most tremendous things about the marathon.
Rob de Castella
The marathon is not really about the marathon it’s about the shared struggle.
Bill Buffum
If you are losing faith in human nature go out and watch a marathon.
Kathrine Switzer
Crossing the finish line at my first marathon was like ending one life and starting another. Now I was a marathoner. A whole new world opened up to me.
Wayne Gibbons
Training for a marathon is an act of faith. Actually running a marathon is an act of courage. With faith and courage, ordinary humans can accomplish great things!
Randy Essex
Pain is just weakness leaving the body.
Okänd
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Buddhistiskt ordspråk
If everything´s under control, you´re going too slow.
Mario Andretti
The best revenge is a good life.
Okänd
Good things happen to good people.
Lisa Nordén
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives, it is the one that is most adaptable to change.
Charles Darwin
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that’s why life is hard.
Jeremy Goldberg
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.
Frank Zappa