You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the co...
You'll never feel the joy of movement if you're struggling. You've got to get good enough and strong enough to reach the point where you can feel this quintessential lightness. - John Gill
Drunk guys who may have ‘made mistakes’ nearly always get the benefit of the doubt. Drunk girls, however, do not. Compounding
Books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.
At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off fro...
At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or the havoc it could wreak on those who'd entruste...
Continually question climbing pursuits. Do they draw one back to the climbing community? Or do they lead along the [inner-directed] path? This questioning generates a tension that is heightened by dis...
Gallien cứ băn khoăn không hiểu liệu có phải anh đã nhặt ở cuối bang thứ bốn mươi tám một trong những gã khùng muốn lên phía Bắc để sống như trong những câu chuyện tưởng tượng xốc nổi kiểu Jack London...
Handwritten in neat block letters on a page torn from a novel by Nikolay Gogol, it read: S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP. I AM INJURED, NEAR DEATH, AND TOO WEAK TO HIKE OUT OF HERE I AM ALL ALONE, THIS IS NO...
In any human endeavor, some fraction of its practitioners will be motivated to pursue that activity with such concentrated focus and unalloyed passion that it will consume them utterly.
In drum spre varf, Viesturs a trecut pe langa cadravele inghetate ale lui Fischer si Hall.-Jean (sotia lui Fischer) si Jan(sotia lui Hall) m-au rugat sa le aduc obiecte personale, poveste rusinat Vies...
In trying to understand McCandless, I inevitably came to reflect on other, larger subjects as well: the grip wilderness has on the American imagination, the allure high-risk activities hold for young...
Invece di raccogliere dei ricordi personali, Viesturs si sedette vicino a Fischer, lungo la discesa, trascorrendo qualche minuto da solo con lui. Ehi, Scott, come te la passi? chiese tristemente Ed al...
It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when life in the Khumbu was so much simpler and more picturesque. Most of the people who live in this rug...
I’m going to repeat that: Without the support of our Sherpas none of us has any chance of climbing the mountain.
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.
Narcissists erupt with self-righteous indignation whenever they believe others are breaking rules, acting unfairly, or getting more than their fair share of the pie. They have no compunction about bre...
On July 2, McCandless finished reading Tolstoy's Family Happiness, having marked several passages that moved him:He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others......
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, an obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry...
The LDS Church has annual revenues estimated at more than $6 billion, and it is currently the largest employer in the state of Utah.
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