Climbing Quotes - Page 28

• Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but, on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view—and your eyes are full of happy tears—and you want to sing—and wish you had wings! And then—you can’t stay there, but must continue your journey—you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten

  Lloyd C. Douglas

  Distance, Eye, Journey

  Lloyd C. Douglas (2012). “The Robe”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One of the frustrating things for people who miss the first rally in a bull market is that they wait for the big correction and it never comes. The market just keeps climbing and climbing. It feeds on itself in frenzied fashion and propels prices considerably higher for six months or so, and sometimes longer.

  Martin Zweig

  Fashion, People, Waiting

  Martin Zweig (2009). “Martin Zweig Winning on Wall Street”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second story, and my greatest enemy or friend may avoid me altogether on the third; so humbled is the aspiring spirit of my youth.

  Edward John Trelawny

  Rocks, Enemy, Mountain

  Edward John Trelawny (1835). “Adventures of a Younger Son”, p.471

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• I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Dream, Mountain, Eyelids

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• I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Trying

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• Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of being self-centered.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Self, Evil, Mind

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• How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Adventure, Standards Set, Years

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• We recorded Star Climbing over a three-year period between our studios, working on songs and lyrics until we felt like we had found the albums direction. It is our most distinctive album to date, combining all our different tastes and styles into one.

  Stuart Price

  Song, Stars, Years

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• Everybody wants to reach the top of the mountain, but there is no growth at the peak. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Growth, Mountain

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• When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous.

  Stacy Allison

  Tangled, Challenges, Mountain

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• The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world.

  Stacy Allison

  Nature, Travel, Air

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• Magic is the only way to describe it, climbing pitch after pitch of the most perfect, beautifully sculpted granite in the world.

  Ron Kauk

  Perfect, Magic, World

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• We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for
  deeper meanings.

  Allen Steck

  Essentials, Useless, Deceiving

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• We do children an enormous disservice when we assume that they cannot appreciate anything beyond drive through fare and nutritionally marginal, kid-targeted convenience foods. Our children are capable of consuming something that grew in a garden or on a tree and never saw a deep fryer. They are capable of making it through diner at a sit-down restaurant with tablecloths and no climbing equipment. Children deserve quality nourishment.

  Victoria Moran

  Children, Kids, Garden

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• What we initially conceived as a fairly simple geologic experiment on Mars ultimately turned into humanity's first real overland expedition across another planet. Spirit explored just as we would have, seeing a distant hill, climbing it, and showing us the vista from the summit. And she did it in a way that allowed everyone on Earth to be part of the adventure.

  Steve Squyres

  Real, Adventure, Simple

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• The mountain is not something eternally sublime; it has a great historic and spiritual meaning to us. It stands for us as the ladder of life. Nay, more; it is the ladder of the soul and in a curious way the source of religion. From it came the Law, from it came the Gospel in the Sermon of the Mount. We may trul say that the highest religion is the Religion of the Mountain.

  Jan Smuts

  Spiritual, Law, Soul

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• Then came a bigger fear. Not the threat of imminent injury, but the fear that if I didn't go back up, I would be a chickenshit forever.

  John Sherman

  Forever, Would Be, Injury

  John Sherman (2012). “Sherman Exposed: Slightly Censored Climbing Stories”, p.176, The Mountaineers Books

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• The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I am the center of everything

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Ego, Feelings, Dimensions

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• I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.

  Warren G. Harding

  Yosemite, Caps, Mountain Climbers

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• Bouldering is like masturbation: not as good as the real thing but you don't need to worry about your protection.

  Scott Grimes

  Real, Worry, Needs

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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.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Thinking, Car

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.51, New World Library

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• Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Hiking, Vision, Mountain

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• Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of death should remain fraternally united through life.

  Maurice Herzog

  Pain, Joy, Wish

  Maurice Herzog (2011). “Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God.

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

  Men, Law, Higher Ground

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• When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Spiritual, Exercise, Air

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