The river that is the metaphor running through his life?

The pursuit of those goals was a thread that ran through his life.

Two threads run through his life, a light one and a dark one.

I want to stop running through my life like a man late for an appointment, afraid to look back or to look forward.

If there's one or two themes that run through his life and work, that's at the top of the list.

The name is derived from what the band describe as "common themes running through each member's life".

Abandonment ran through her life like a dark thread in a tapestry.

The pursuit of those goals was an easily identifiable thread running through his life.

He set a personal example by running for a couple of hours a day all through his life.

It is a theme that runs through the small landlord's life.