"Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget."

-- Barry Lopez

#Years Quotes #Giving Quotes #Sublime Quotes

“In moments of uncertainty...i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.”
“Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?”
“In the mountains, fatigue is the biggest controllable limitation that will come between you and success.”

Source : Steve House, Scott Johnston (2014). “Training for the New Alpinism: A Manual for the Climber as Athlete”, p.40, Patagonia
“Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80's movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life.”
“When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.”
“In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence,”

Source : Speech by Mr Vivek Kamra, www.spd.org.sg. 2014.
“If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.”
“Egypt is coming back - is becoming - is going to become, you know, a center of excellence for the region and maybe for the rest of the world.”

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