The Easy Thing Versus the Hard Thing

Lance armstrong says pain is temporary. If i quit, however, it lasts forever. I often break things down into this dicotomy of the easy, meaningless way and the hard, meaningful way. But that may be over simplified. The hard thing is too simplified, void of imperative context. It's easy to shut down when at our lowest. It'seasy to stop when it hurts. But easy now evolves into what's actually incredibly difficult to morw a difficult heart wrenching, regretful, forever admitted. A controversial figure, but regardless, one of the most important quotes i've ever read as by lance armstrong in his book, it's not about the bike