No one you love is ever truly lost.
I have to admit I do get a bit depressed at times and you know I think about the good old days when I was charging ahead.
I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible.
Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow. . . but I'm still growing!
For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,’ she said. ‘And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, and I blinked during that moment and it's gone. I don't know which is worse — to have missed it or to know there is nothing to miss. ’ Falling Angels
To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries.