#climbs

The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#nature

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#any #climbs #daily #down #drops

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#ladder #man #playing #poet #puts

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin. ↗

— Marcia Gay Harden

#age #any #character #character roles #climbs

The higher one climbs the lonelier one is. ↗

— Mary Barnett Gilson

#higher #lonelier

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. ↗

— George S. Patton

#bottom #climbs #high #hits #how

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. ↗

— Walter Scott

#fruit #gulf #his #leaps #prevail

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#hurt #into #intoxication #loophole #men

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. ↗

— Edmund Hillary

#climb #climbs #expeditions #hell #money

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing. ↗

— Alex Lowe

#climbing #climbs #doing #gives #harder