"You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit."

-- Jim Whittaker

#Nature Quotes #Pain Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“I do not believe so implicitly, as some cricketers and writers upon cricket do, in watching the bowler's hand.I prefer to watch the ball, and not anticipate events.”
“I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.”
“Knowledge is power only when put to use - and then only when the use made of it is constructive.”

Source : David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.30, Penguin
“I have seen quite a lot of things in life. I would not like to change anything. Because every moment of my life has taught me something.”
“Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a delightful solace.”
“My mom says I have to be more positive, and I say life has to be more positive too or it's just not going to work.”

Source : Jane Wagner (1995). “My Life, So Far: By Edith Ann”, Hyperion
“Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living thus, as a river, one experiences life to the full, flows along with the current of life, and dies in order to live again as an ocean.”
“I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.”

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