"That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again."

-- Michael Johnson

#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Climbing Quotes

“Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.”
“I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn't know what the thing was. It's the honor what I loved.”
“Mummyâ€™s coming home late tonight. Itâ€™ll be just we guys, so we can get drunk and watch porn.”
“Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation.”
“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now â€” and we're going to try our hands at it.”

Source : Sinclair Lewis (1924). “Main Street”, p.228, Lulu.com
“Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke ***** without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long history of use and the extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers, there are simply no credible reports to suggest that consuming ***** has caused a single death. By contrast, aspirin, a commonly used, over-the-counter medicine, causes hundreds of deaths each year.”
“The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we're still alive, before we die.”
“I've always thought, "I could probably write one of these country songs and send them to these places and make up this fake country band. Wouldn't it be awesome to have a completely parallel career and have nobody know about it?" I think I could get away with it. I'd be the guy from Oklahoma with country cred.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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