《關於跑步，我想說的其實是》選段

實在非常喜歡村上春樹的《關於跑步，我想說的其實是》，所以一邊聽著英文版聲音書，一邊記下喜歡的句子和段落。

* The fact that I'm me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

* The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.


* When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.

* I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.

* Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.

* Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek a kind of fairness.

* To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.

* I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had.

* I don't think we should judge the value of our lives by how efficient they are.