"Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'."

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Source : Greg Child (2012). “Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child”, p.52, The Mountaineers Books

Greg Child

#Struggle Quotes #Feet Quotes #Climbing Quotes

“I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.”

Source : "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 16, 2013.
“When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want.”
“You need to get up in the morning and say, 'Boy, I'm going to - in my own stupid way - save the world today.'”
“When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.”
“Actually, even our virility depends on the gaze and the control of women. Without women, we cannot do anything. I think it's a good thing.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“Of the twenty-four hours a day, Use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep and six for service to others.”
“Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.”
“A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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