"You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you.Â ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process."

-- Yvon Chouinard

#Spiritual Quotes #Climbing Quotes #Oxygen Quotes

“Nowadays, influencers do anything to keep up with each other for attention, and it's not always something today's youth should mimic.”
“You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees”
“Preliminary research-most of it published outside the medical literature-indicates that a significant number of our patients have experienced some form of violence and abuse during their lifetime, including elder abuse, child abuse, gang-related violence, sexual abuse, and domestic violence.”
“In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.”
“Fervent seeking after God with the whole heart, without which no one can know Him, has always been the mark of His true followers.”
“What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.”
“I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change. But I am willing to acknowledge that people who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that it is the consequence of our own behaviour. I assume that this is why the BBC?s coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago.”

Source : "Paxman accuses BBC of hypocrisy over environment" by Jason Deans, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2007.
“Cole sat back up, slowly, and I opened my eyes. His expression, as ever, was blank, the face he wore when something mattered. He said, "That's how I would kiss you, if I loved you.”

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