#mo

People ask me, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?' and my answer must at once be, 'It is of no use.'There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behaviour of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron... 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. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to live. That is what life means and what life is for. ↗

— George Mallory

#dreams #everest #mountaineering #mountains #dreams

Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen. ↗

— Neil Young

#money #sarcasm-humor #dreams

Desire is what lends power to thought, it is that element that separates a wish or a day dream into reality, if properly directed. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#law-of-attraction #manifestation #manifesting #mind-power #money

Don't let your dreams rust! Listen to your youthful bells ringing loud inside of you. ↗

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

#motivation #dreams

You're not pathetic," she growled. "You're not worthless. But you are hurt. Maybe even a little confused and probably a lot of deranged, but not pathetic." "Deranged?" "Well, you did barge into hell to save a woman who was dumb enough to get caught. . . how many times now? Personally I wouldn't have saved me after the first time. That to me says you're deranged. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#dreams

There is no monopoly of common sense On either side of the political fence We share the same biology Regardless of ideology Believe me when I say to you I hope the Russians love their children too [...] There's no such thing as a winnable war It's a lie we don't believe anymore ..." (The Russians) ↗

— Sting

#common-sense #communalities #ideology #peace #war

You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#love #lysander #dreams

To my mind's eye, my buried memories of Brandham Hall are like effects of chiaroscuro, patches of light and dark: it is only with effort that I see them in terms of colour. There are things I know, though I don't know how I know them, and things that I remember. Certain things are established in my mind as facts, but no picture attaches to them; on the other hand there are pictures unverified by any fact which recur obsessively, like the landscape of a dream. ↗

— L.P. Hartley

#dreams

Everyone is born and they die, but it's the memories they leave behind that define them and let them live on than others. ↗

— Judi Fennell

#memories #dreams

Poetry is just so emo,' he said. 'Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul. ↗

— John Green

#poetry #rain #pain