#limb

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#bench #bend #breath #catching #climbing

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#california #country #like #limb #me

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#atmosphere #becomes #blue #blue sky #body

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury. ↗

— George Eliot

#cases #climb #hatred #inflict #injuries

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#climb #figure #give #go #how

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#craving #men #mountain #new #restless

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf. ↗

— Martin Luther

#branch #climb #each #fall #first

I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#dream #everest #i #like #lots

Have you ever wondered what language they speak in Limbo? ↗

— Lee T. Gallup

#humor #inspirational #limbo #purgatory #inspirational

I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#climbing #into-the-wild #krakauer #change