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We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward.

— Scott Jurek Eat and Run (2012)

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Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.

Eat and Run (2012)

Nature's arena has a way of humbling and energizing us.

Eat and Run (2012)

The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.

Eat and Run (2012)

We move forward, but we must stay in the present.

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The potential of the human body is immense. You can come out of some of the deepest, darkest holes if you keep pressing forward.

Interview in the documentary-film The Game Changers by Louie Psihoyos (2018)

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