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Runner Things #121
Posted on 24 Aug, 2011
![Runner Things #121: Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfils itself.](http://fuelrunning.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140824-1500.jpg)
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Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfils itself.
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