"I really learned to approach climbing not just with a pure athletic mentality, but also to appreciate all these beautiful places we get to go to."
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"It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective."
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"Between the shores of the oceans and the summit of the highest mountain is a secret route that you must absolutely take before being one with the sons of the Earth."
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"I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture."
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"The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they may not be aware of it, is that it forces them into the Now - that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality."
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"If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all."
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"Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do."
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"Climbing is so fun and such a good experience, that I think it's important not to take it too seriously. It's not the end of the world - or the entire world either."
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"New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view."
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"Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top."
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"Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise."
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"The climbing and soloing aren't worth dying for, but they are worth risking dying for."
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"Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team."
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"Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top."
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"Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'."
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"The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death."
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"Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future."
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"Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there - Man's lampad honor, and his trust, The God who called him from the dust."
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"If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne."
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"Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure."
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