"The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult."

-- Yvon Chouinard

#Climbing Quotes #Difficult Quotes #Enjoyable Quotes

“Life is a collaboration, it's not a solo act.”
“Excuse me while I go bleach my face.”

Source : Elle Casey (2012). “Apocalypsis: Book 1 (Kahayatle)”, p.104, Elle Casey
“Can art change the world? Maybe ... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?”
“God is to me that creative force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought, as conscience, as love.”
“No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there's nothing on I want to listen to. It's all I really have that belongs to me and I'm going to say what happens to it. And it's going to stop. And I'm going to stop it. So. Let's just have a good time.”
“I'm a big romantic, so I love guys who are romantic too.”
“We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. But I think women's anger sits less well than anything else. Women's anger is very scary to people, and to no one more than to other women, who think my goodness, if I let the lid off, where would we be?”
“Children are the true connoisseurs. Whatâ€™s precious to them has no price, only value.”

Source : Bel Kaufman (2012). “This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections”, p.58, Open Road Media

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