Aron Ralston Quotes

• Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

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  Inspirational, Adversity, Greatness

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• Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.

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  Everything Happens For A Reason, Life Is, Beauty Of Life

  Aron Ralston (2011). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• You'll never find your limits until you've gone too far.

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  Gone, Limits

  Aron Ralston (2011). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• May your boulders be your blessings. May you be able to embrace them. And may you find what's extraordinary in yourself.

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  Blessing, Boulders, May

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• I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.

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  Graves

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• When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting out something and leaving it in your past.

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  Inspiration, Mean, Cutting

  Aron Ralston (2010). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon,for each day to have a new and different sun.

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  Passion, Adventure, Reality

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• How would I behave in a situation that caused me to summon the essence of my character? The tragedy inspired me to test myself. I wanted to reveal to myself who I was: the kind of person who died, or the kind of person who overcame circumstances to help himself and others

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  Character, Essence, Tragedy

  Aron Ralston (2011). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life.

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  Letting Go, Moving, Rocks

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• Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

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  Powerful, Farewell, Saying Farewell

  Aron Ralston (2010). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is, stuck. It's been without circulation for twenty-four hours. It's pretty well gone.

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  Rocks, Hands, Gone

  "127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place". Book by Aron Ralston, September 7, 2004.

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• I was able to first snap the radius and then within another few minutes snap the ulna at the wrist and from there, I had the knife out and applied the tourniquet and went to task. It was a process that took about an hour.

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  Knives, Tasks, Able

  "How I snapped bone and cut off my arm, by US climber" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2003.

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• Indeed, it has affirmed my belief that our purpose as spiritual beings is to follow our bliss, seek our passions, and live our lives as inspirations to each other.

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  Spiritual, Inspiration, Passion

  Aron Ralston (2010). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• We are not grand because we are at the top of the food chain or because we can alter our environment - the environment will outlast us with its unfathomable forces and unyielding powers. But rather than be bound and defeated by our insignificance, we are bold because we exercise our will anyway, despite the ephemeral and delicate presence we have in this desert, on this planet, in this universe.

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  Exercise, Desert, Unyielding

  Aron Ralston (2011). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I certainly made mistakes.

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  Mistake, Made, Made A Mistake

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• Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.

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  Accomplishment, Important, Lessons

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• Like looking through a telescope into the Milky Way and wondering if we're alone in the universe, it made me realize with the glaring clarity of desert light how scarce and delicate life is, how insignificant we are compared with the forces of nature and the dimensions of space.

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  Delicate Life, Space, Light

  Aron Ralston (2011). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

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  Thinking, Climbing, Flow

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• A crystalline moment shatters, and the world is a different place. Where there was confinement, now there is release. Recoiling from my sudden liberation, my left arm flings downcanyon, opening my shoulders to the south, and I fall back against the northern wall of the canyon, my mind is surfing on euphoria. As I stare at the wall where not twelve hours ago I etched “RIP OCT 75 ARON APR 03,” a voice shouts in my head: I AM FREE!

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  Wall, Rip, Fall

  Aron Ralston (2004). “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Basis of the Motion Picture 127 Hours”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.

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  Aggravation, Tuesday, Judging

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• I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the park - there were no avalanches, it was a beautiful day and I was essentially just walking.

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  Beautiful, Parks, Avalanches

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• Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

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  Thank You, Beautiful, Love You

  Aron Ralston (2004). “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Basis of the Motion Picture 127 Hours”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• It adds up, but I deem it all necessary, even the camera gear. I enjoy photographing the otherworldly colors and shapes presented in the convoluted depths of slot canyons and the prehistoric artwork preserved in their alcoves.

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  Color, Cameras, Depth

  Aron Ralston (2004). “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Basis of the Motion Picture 127 Hours”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever.

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  Climbing, Wells, Feels

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• When I climb a fourteener, a 14,000-foot/4,260-meter peak, in the winter by myself, I leave an itinerary and information about where my vehicle will be parked and the name of the county sheriff to contact in case I don't get home.

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  Home, Winter, Feet

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