Perhaps there’s no better act of simplification than climbing a mountain. For an afternoon, a day, or a week, it’s a way of reducing a complicated life into a simple goal. All you have to do is take one step at a time, place one foot in front of the other, and refuse to turn back until you’ve given everything you have. Ken Ilgunas
Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.
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Carrie Underwood
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.
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Audrey Niffenegger
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
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Flannery OConnor
Know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.
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Nora Roberts
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
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Robert H. Schuller
More Quotes By Ken Ilgunas
I wonder what Thoreau would have done..[ H}is greatest story, I thought, was his life. He knew that anything is possible when you wield the pen and claim your life as your own. But the truth is so few have the privilege to write their...
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We have trains to hop, voyages to embark on, and rides to hitch. And then there’s the great American wild–vanishing but still there–ready to impart its wisdom from an Alaskan peak or a patch of grass growing in a crack of a city sidewalk. And...
Perhaps there’s no better act of simplification than climbing a mountain. For an afternoon, a day, or a week, it’s a way of reducing a complicated life into a simple goal. All you have to do is take one step at a time, place one...
Yet as the days went by and the pains in my feet subsided, I began to look back on my little adventure with a hint of fondness. When it comes to memories, it seems we all have an editor within who will–if it’ll make for...
