#everest

How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . . Is this the summit, crowning the day? How cool and quiet! We're not exultant; but delighted, joyful; soberly astonished. . . Have we vanquished an enemy? None but ourselves. Have we gained success? That word means nothing here. Have we won a kingdom? No. . . and yes. We have achieved an ultimate satisfaction. . . fulfilled a destiny. . . To struggle and to understand - never this last without the other; such is the law. . . ↗

— George Mallory

#dreams #everest #mountaineering #mountains #dreams

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#friendship #held #severest #test

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#beautiful person #best #best man #cleverest #competition

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cancer #climbing #doctors #early #elbow

I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

#business #committed #everest #fischer #hall

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#injustice #law #severest #sometimes #strictest

There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#climb #enough #everest #i #life

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#cleverest #err #far #human #least

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#biggest #clever #cleverest #idiots #makes

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

#blood #character #clan #easy #family