Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you start to think, Man this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The hurt part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand any more is up to the runner himself.
 Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007). copy citation

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Author Haruki Murakami
Source What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Topic suffering running
Date 2007
Language English
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Note Translated by Philip Gabriel
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