There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.
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.
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.
Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.
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.
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.