Andrea Berardi

“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You cannot grow and expand your capabilities to their limits without running the risk of failure. And failure can provide invaluable lessons.”
― Dean Karnazes, Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss

“People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness. Dostoyevsky had it right: 'Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.' Never are my senses more engaged than when the pain sets in. There is a magic in misery. Just ask any runner.”
― Dean Karnazes, Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

“Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.”
― Dean Karnazes, Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner