The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.
All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.
Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
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