Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
the shell must break before the bird can fly.
Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet.
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
The mighty hopes that make us men.
No one ever thinks about what the hell is going to happen 25 years from now.
This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people without prolonged negotiation, partners engaged in a dance in the middle of a bonfire. Now, it's 300-page manuals about how to make sure nothing bad will happen.
These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.
The climbing and soloing aren't worth dying for, but they are worth risking dying for.