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Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
If you're going climbing with young people, you get very, very used to seeing your climbing partner as a tiny little dot.
I feel like I've gotten to a point where I don't know if it can get much bigger. I've been climbing and I feel very happy.
Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.
It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.
There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.
Climbing the mountain is always more fun than sitting at the top. It's just you have to find different mountains to climb.
We have made it impossible for children to fall very far—and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.
Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.
Whether it be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro or dealing with your children, life is an adventure, and it's how you perceive it.
At the edge of the cliffs, the wind is a smack, and D-day becomes wildly clear: climbing that cutting edge into the bullets.
Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy
Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.
Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.
I did the twenty-three-hour Nose route to the top of El Capitan in eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes, I can get over this.
Along with rock climbing, I hike and I like to go to the beach, anything outdoors and anything that takes me out of the everyday.
When I was a kid, I always dreamed about climbing mountains. I read every book about it. I formulated this plan to accomplish it.
He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.
Because life is short but sweet for certain We're climbing two by two To be sure these days continue These things we cannot change
History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.
I've been mistagged. I like ice climbing, but I do a lot more rock climbing. Ice is just more mysterious and changeable than rock.
I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.
Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.
I grew up on an apple orchard with a lot of surrounding wooded area, and I ran everywhere. I was outside all the time climbing trees.
I've been a really big fan of climbing. I really got into it when I watched the show 'Beyond the Limit' about climbing Mount Everest.
The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.
For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.
(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
I actually just rock-climbed when I was away on vacation and now I'm searching out rock climbing gyms. That's my new obsession for 2013.
Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
... they always tell us it's getting to the top that's hard. Climbing's the easy part. Sliding down the other side, that's the hard part.
The things I like to do involve a lot of mental focus, a combination of physical and mental challenge. That is what mountain climbing is.
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.
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.
I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it, okay?
Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.
I was a snowboard bum and a climbing bum.
Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.
Bouldering is the synthesis of all skills needed for climbing
A sense of uncertainty that is potentially fatal is what makes climbing an adventure. Anything less is just working out
Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions.
I'm not thinking about anything when I'm climbing, which is part of the appeal. I'm focused on executing what's in front of me.
If you want to climb it badly enough, you will. So... why bother ?