Christopher McDougall Quotes

Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do.

Sometimes I'm fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I'm putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person.

I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again.

...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you've got, being patient and forgiving and... undemanding...maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.

I said that love heals from inside.

You can't raise a happy, more resilient kid if you're not a happy, more resilient adult.

Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. And that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. In the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.

Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesnt kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life.

I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.

You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.

Surround yourself with good people who encourage and love you. There are always ups and downs, no matter how successful you are.

Our society is so obsessed with working out to be skinny, and none of that has a purpose. I love that my daughter sees me running because she knows I have a race and that I want to be faster. It becomes much less of a grind when it's that way.

I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D., it was literally the only hour of the day that I wasn't working. It was nine months of torture, but I made sure I got out to run.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

I love to see how far you're able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.

Besides being good for our body, running helps us to focus and throw away negative energy.

I think the big things for me are trying to keep running and staying active, but not forcing to do one hour or five miles but really going out and doing it until you feel good.

One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.

Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it.

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.

I exercise every day. It's what makes me happy.

I started running, and I hated it. Of course, everyone hates running for the first mile. If you're running two miles or twenty miles, it always hurts. Now I live it. I look forward to it. It's really good. It clears my head.