Without love, I should be spiritless.
When things are easy, I hate it.
Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last. . . to the North Pole.
After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.
I chose life over death for myself and my friends. . . I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.
This topic of judging others could actually be taught in a two-word sermon. When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it! It’s that simple. We simply have to stop judging others and replace judgmental thoughts and feelings with a heart full of love for God and His children.
I realized early on that artifice attracted me to an image more than any other quality - I mean artifice in the sense of staging and heightened color and exaggerated lighting, not a surreal or fictive moment. . . I think the lighting and feeling of Cinemascope, the movies I saw as a kid, always stayed with me as a kind of glorious vision of reality.
Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
You control your own wins and losses.