Japan

In the utter darkness
Of a moonless night
A powerful wind embraces
— Bashō

moving forward, and there are people who are moving forward behind them. Keep that image in mind.

that it was okay just to feel grateful sometimes, even if you don’t say anything. Feeling is the important part. You don’t have to make a big deal about

This is the point where my legs start to scream.

As Csikszentmihalyi asserts in his book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, flow is “the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.”

EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING