The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.
I would love Kate Middleton to be in 'Glee. ' Wouldn't that be fantastic? That would be great.
A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home.
Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down.
I was never pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I was never quirky enough to be the quirky girl. Boys didn't look at me in high school and think I was the pretty girl.
But people are going to say what they want to say. I know who I am, and I'm not perfect.
I need some me-time. I have to remember to rest, because I have a natural energy and I don't want to burn out.
ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.
Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance.
Unlike most of life, what you do really matters. Your actions have real consequences. You have to pay attention and focus, and that's very satisfying. It forces you to pay great attention and you lose yourself in the task at hand. Without the risk, that wouldn't happen, so the risk is an essential part of climbing, and that's hard for some people to grasp. You can't justify the risk when things go wrong and people die. The greater the risk, the greater the reward in most aspects of life, and in climbing that's certainly true, too. It's very physical, you use your mind and your body.
Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows.