"I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it."

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Source : "Raha Moharrak: First Saudi woman to conquer Everest and break taboos" by Kellie Morgan, www.cnn.com. August 13, 2013.

Raha Moharrak

#Mountain Quotes #Saws Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.”
“Sometimes you have to change. You know change is always good.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.”
“I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.”
“The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.”
“Changing schools and friends is hard on children and can often make them desperate and lonely enough to form closer ties with a sibling.”
“I believe in the joyous power of an unscheduled dance break.”
“There is no proof. There are no authorities whatever. No president, Academy, Court of Law, Congress or Senate on this earth has the knowledge or power to decide what will be the knowledge of tomorrow. There is no use in trying to prove something that is unknown to somebody who is ignorant of the unknown, or fearful of its threatening power. Only the good old rules of learning will eventually bring about understanding of what has invaded our earthly existence.”

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