"Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride."

-- Bear Grylls

#Heart Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Pride Quotes

“Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.”
“Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now!" Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to squeeze. "I didn't mean..." "No one ever does." Petra said, shoving the baton back at Shanti.”
“Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.”

Source : Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee
“There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. I believe this.”
“Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.”

Source : Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”
“Heroic figures are now obsolete,So Demigod and Devil find retreatIn minds of children - as rare beasts and men,Elsewhere extinct, persist in hill or fenFrom man protected - where each form assumesGigantic stature and intention, loomsFrom wind-moved, twilight-woven histories:For them each flower teems with mysteries.”

Source : Osbert Sitwell (1931). “The collected satires and poems of Osbert Sitwell”
“I think it's good for moms to work. I have three daughters, so I like them to see me working and doing something I'm passionate about.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When we see that we are not made up by the other's experience, we then have the capacity not to take responsibility for what is now genuinely and for the first time not ours. And as a result, we can get just as close to the other's experience (even the other's experience of how dissapointing, enraging, or disapprovable we are!) without any need to react defensively to it or be guiltily compliant with it.”

Source : Robert Kegan (1995). “In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life”, p.127, Harvard University Press

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