Something I'd like to be perfect at?. . . Loving you,' I said. The words climbed from my mouth. 'I'd want to be perfect at loving you.
I climbed like a billion stairs. . . its not like I can take them two at a time.
Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.
To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
-the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.
I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whatever was coming next, to this moment.
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
My father lifted me up in his strong gentle arms and said something I will never forget. He said, "I know you can do it. There is nothing that you can't do. We're going to climb that hill together even if it takes us all day. " And at age 12 losing your leg pretty much seems like the end of the world. But as I climbed onto his back and we flew down the hill that day, I knew he was right. I knew I was going to be OK. You see, my father taught me that even our most profound losses are survivable. And it is what we do with that loss - our ability to transform it into a positive event.
Merripen, despite his fear of heights, had often climbed a ladder to wash the second floor window for her. He had wanted her view of the outside world to be clear. He had said the sky should always be blue for her.
I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.
When you get some success, you want more. When you get one mountain climbed, you want to climb the next one.
When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
Got your text,” he said when I climbed out. “How much did it hurt?” “Not at all,” I said. “Apparently, I can’t get a tattoo because I’m a witch. ” “I could have told them-” He stopped. “Oh, you said witch. ” “Ha-ha.
Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts~ It had been to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency.
Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self confidence that comes from truly being loved.
There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.
It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.
I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.