"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."

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Source : "That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom". Book by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.

Edmund Hillary

#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Graduation Quotes

“The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western Europe. I fervently hope that my pursuit, as a Japanese, of literature and culture will, in some small measure, repay Western Europe for the light it has shed upon the human condition.”

Source : Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1994.
“We must become children again if we wish to achieve the best.”
“A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.”
“Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.”
“When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a different play, when they say things that we could not imagine saying in the same circumstances, the ground on which we stand seems to tremble and our footing is suddenly unsure.”
“There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.”
“See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.”
“We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because they don't have the same political base that we do.”

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