"Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings. I enjoy the freedom and the altitude. It is only when I return to life below that I feel the world's weight on my shoulders."

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Source : Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt (2015). “The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest”, p.301, St. Martin's Griffin

Anatoli Boukreev

#Wings Quotes #Bird Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”
“The more I look around and listen I realize that I'm not alone. We are all facing choices that define us. No choice. However messy is without importance in the overall picture of our lives. We all at our own age have to claim something, even if it's only our own confusion. I am in the middle of growing up and into myself.”

Source : "Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself". Book by Sabrina Ward Harrison, 2000.
“Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.”
“To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.”
“And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome.”
“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”

Source : James Jones (2011). “From Here to Eternity: The Restored Edition”, p.943, Open Road Media
“There is no other way to start the season than to win the Daytona 500.”
“I got lot to do at a pretty young age in terms of emotionally challenging films. I did not do any fluff... fluff is not me,”

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