“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. ... 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.” IfsShouldBigsHappensSpiritualProcessGoalGrowthPayFeetDangerousMountainLaysPersonal GrowthGuidesCompromiseFixedClimbsPushingClimbingLoadPullingSoloOxygenRopeLaddersEverestSherpas Author:Yvon Chouinard
“There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.” IfsWantMomentsGoalMountainGloryRevelationsClimbsClimbingFatigueClimbing Mountain Author:Karyn Kusama
“The final goal of physical education is to make strong beings. In the purely physical sense, the Natural Method promotes the qualities of organic resistance, muscularity and speed, towards being able to walk, run, jump, move on all fours, to climb, to keep balance, to throw, lift, defend yourself and to swim.” RunningAbleMovingStrongGoalNaturalWalksQualityBalanceMethodFinalsSpeedResistanceLiftsClimbsSwimFoursPhysical Education Author:Georges Hebert
“Yes, take a little time to play And look at life the other way. God rested when the world was made: Rest now, old friend; be not afraid. But think not that your work is over, That you are now a foot-free rover, A rambler upon idle ways, Whittling away the golden days. For in the road climb to the goal There's no long furlough for a soul. There's no long pause: on every height Another summit swims in sight. The long road rises, scene by scene, With little restings in between.” ThinkingWorldWayLooksLittlesLongMadeSoulPlayGoalFeetSceneSightGoldenHeightClimbsSwimNot AfraidIdlePausesSummitOld FriendsLittle TimeLong RoadWhittlingGolden Days Author:Edwin Markham
“That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.” IfsInspirationalFirstsLooksInspirationMotivationalMotivationGoalPlansLessonsSelf ImprovementBreathsClimbsClimbingPausesRoutesDeep BreathBest PlaceTerrainTake A Deep Breath Author:Michael Johnson
“I am not enough to be only in the mountains, not enough to be on an expedition. I believe that if the walks uphill, then with some goal, and that goal is to climb to the top.” IfsBelieveEnoughI BelieveGoalWalksMountainClimbsExpeditions Author:Jerzy Kukuczka
“With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.” TryingLooksLastsGoalNumbersStepsOughtNegativePhilosophicalRegardClimbsMetaphysicsBackwardsLadders Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two