"Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man."

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Source : "The Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory". Book by Peter Gillman and Leni Gillman, June 29, 2000.

George Leigh Mallory

#Men Quotes #Land Quotes #Stories Quotes

“The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London telephone booth to look like that it would have to be guarded around the clock by the SAS.”
“I guess at it's very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you were lucky enough to experience it.”

Source : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.
“You and I, being grown-up and having lost our hearts at least twice or thrice along the way, might shut our eyes and cry out: Not that way, child! But as we have said, September was Somewhat Heartless, and felt herself reasonably safe on that road. Children always do.”
“Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian”
“To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.”
“If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my relationships become a wonderful self mastery tool that keeps realigning me with my higher purpose for living.”
“Iâ€™m 23 right now and I feel like Iâ€™m still trying to figure it out. Maybe in another two years, Iâ€™ll have it all together. So maybe 25 is the age at which a woman feels her most beautiful just because sheâ€™s survived her teenage years and early twenties.”
“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

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