Your problems are out there. But they're small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb inside your head.
The climbing of earths heights, in itself, means little. That men and women want and try to climb them means everything. For it is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear.
You gotta be willing to face, every fear! Climb, every mountain! Defy, every odd!
When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.
Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it.
When you get some success, you want more. When you get one mountain climbed, you want to climb the next one.
She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.
The descent is often as much (or more of) a challenge as the climb.
The basic rules of life would indicate that it can't last forever, and we'll fall off of the wave and have to climb onto another, but I don't think about it too much. We just keep moving.
I'm always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I'll build a new one.
A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands.
I've always been a big fan of the Yeti, simply because I have an affiliation to Everest - who was the New Zealander, Sir Edmund Hillary, the guy that conquered it. He actually went on an expedition after the Everest climb to look for the Yeti, and they didn't find it, but they found a footprint and some hair samples that turned out to be a goat or something.
If you are in a deep dark well with no rope to climb, hold on to the hope, because it is also a strong rope!
You say that if we hadn't just gotten married, you would want to marry Miss Arkansas. Even if she can't spell. She can sit on her hair. A lover could climb that hair like a gym rope. It's fairy-tale hair, Rapunzel hair. We saw her practicing for the pageant in the hotel ballroom with two wild pigs, her hair braided into two lassoes.
Life's a climb, but the view's great.
I know that there are obstacles; I know that there are hills to climb, I know there were people before me that made my journey easier and there are people behind me that I have made the journey easier for.
To see the big picture, get out of the dark valleys, climb to the sunny summits!
It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.
Keep close to Nature's heart. . . and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself.