To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
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To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.
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.
There's intense personal gratification in finding a mountain and becoming inspired by the aesthetics of an unclimbed line on that mountain, especially if that line has been tried by a lot of people who couldn't do it, and you get to set yourself up against the history of it.
I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.
When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.