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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.-Albert Einstein- …

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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.-C. S. Lewis- …

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No matter where you're at, don't get complacent. Don't get comfortable. -Robert Kiyosaki- …

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The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.-Chen Shui-bian- …

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Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.-Jim Hightower- …

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Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.-Marco Rubio- …

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.-James Freeman Clarke- …

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In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?-Barack Obama- …

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Hasil materi adalah perwujudan tenaga tak terlihat; selongsong peluru yang mengenai kita ditembakkan oleh meriam tak terlihat pada waktu yang tidak diketahui. Dengan cara yang sama, semua kejadian penting bermula dari pikiran. -Henri Amiel- …

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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.-Samuel Smiles- …

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I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.-Billy Corgan- …

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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.-Saint Teresa of Avila- …

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The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.-Marianne Williamson-  …

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When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.-Orison Swett Marden- …

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.-Marcel Proust- …

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Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.-Greg Anderson- …

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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.-Adrienne Rich- …

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Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.-Tad Williams- …

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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.-Lao Tzu- …

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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.-Lyndon B. Johnson- …

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A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.-John Steinbeck- …

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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.-Truman Capote- …

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Easy reading is damn hard writing.-Nathaniel Hawthorne- …

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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.-W. Somerset Maugham- …

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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.-Graham Greene- …

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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.-Anais Nin- …

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A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.-Marcus Garvey- …

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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.-Ralph Waldo Emerson- …

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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.-Benjamin Franklin- …

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.-Dale Carnegie- …

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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.-Edgar Degas- …

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A picture is a poem without words.-Horace- …

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Art is not a thing; it is a way.-Elbert Hubbard- …

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An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.-James Whistler- …

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.-Winston Churchill- …

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.-Oscar Wilde- …

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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.-Aristotle- …

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.-Abraham Lincoln- …

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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.-Vincent Van Gogh- …

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Kita belum hidup dalam sinar bulan purnama, kita masih hidup di masa pancaroba, tetaplah bersemangat elang rajawali !-Bung Karno, pidato HUT Proklamasi 1949- …

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Berikan aku 1000 orang tua, niscaya akan kucabut semeru dari akarnya, berikan aku 10 pemuda, niscaya akan kuguncangkan dunia. -Bung Karno- …

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Bahwa manusia di dunia ini, Saudara-saudara, “basically” - pada dasar dan hakekatnya - adalah sama; tidak beda satu sama lain. Dan oleh karena itu manusia inilah yang harus diperhatikan. -Bung Karno- …

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Gotong royong adalah pembantingan tulang bersama, pemerasan keringat bersama, perjuangan bantu-membantu bersama. Amal semua buat kepentingan semua, keringat semua buat kebahagiaan semua. Ho-lopis-kuntul-baris buat kepentingan bersama!  -Bung Karno- …

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Jikalau ingin menjadi satu bangsa yang besar, ingin menjadi bangsa yang mempunyai kehendak untuk bekerja, perlu pula mempunyai “imagination! -Kutipan pidato bung Karno di Semarang 29 Juli 1956- …

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Kita mendirikan negara Indonesia, yang kita semua harus mendukungnya. Semua buat semua! Bukan Kristen buat Indonesia, bukan golongan Islam buat Indonesia, bukan Hadikoesoemo buat Indonesia, bukan Van Eck buat Indonesia, bukan Nitisemito yang kaya buat Indonesia, tetapi Indonesia buat Indonesia, semua buat semua! -Soekarno, Pidato di BPUPKI, 1 Jun…

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Sungguh Tuhan hanya memberi hidup satu kepadaku, tidak ada manusia mempunyai hidup dua atau hidup tiga. Tetapi hidup satunya akan kuberikan, insya Allah Subhanahuwata'ala, seratus persen kepada pembangunan tanah air dan bangsa. Dan... dan jikalau aku misalnya diberikan dua hidup oleh Tuhan, dua hidup ini pun akan aku persembahkan kepada tanah air …

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Di seberang jembatan, jembatan emas inilah, baru kita leluasa menyusun masyarakat Indonesia merdeka yang gagah, kuat, sehat, kekal dan abadi.-Bung Karno, Pidato di BPUPKI, 1 Juni 1945- …

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Jika tiap-tiap orang Indonesia yang 70 milyun ini lebih dahulu harus merdeka di dalam hatinya, sebelum kita mencapai political independence, saya ulangi lagi, sampai lebur kiamat kita belum dapat Indonesia merdeka! Di dalam Indonesia merdeka itulah kita memerdekakan rakyat kita! Di dalam Indonesia merdeka itulah kita memerdekakan hatinya bangsa ki…

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Manakala sesuatu bangsa telah sanggup mempertahankan negerinya dengan darahnya sendiri, dengan dagingnya sendiri, pada saat itu bangsa itu telah masak untuk kemerdekaan. Kalau bangsa kita, Indonesia, walaupun dengan bambu runcing, Saudara-saudara, semua siap sedia mati mempertahankan tanah air kita Indonesia, pada saat itu bangsa Indonesia adalah …

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Bunga mawar tidak mempropagandakan harum semerbaknya, dengan sendirinya harum semerbaknya itu tersebar di sekelilingnya. -Bung Karno- …

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Negeri kita kaya, kaya, kaya-raya, Saudara-saudara. Berjiwa besarlah, berimagination. Gali ! Bekerja! Gali! Bekerja! Kita adalah satu tanah air yang paling cantik di dunia.-Kutipan Pidato Bung Karno di semarang 29 Juli 1956- …

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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.-Edward Teller- …

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Technology is teaching us to be human again.-Simon Mainwaring- …

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Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.-Peter Guber- …

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We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.-Scott Cook- …

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Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.-Tom Hanks- …

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You affect the world by what you browse.-Tim Berners-Lee- …

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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.-Omar N. Bradley- …

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Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.-Freeman Dyson- …

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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.-B. F. Skinner- …

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Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.-Jean Arp- …

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Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.-Dave Barry- …

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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.-Alan Kay- …

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The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.-Robert Iger - …

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The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.-Dan Stevens- …

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Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.-William Shatner- …

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Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.-Charles Mingus- …

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Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.-Bryant H. McGill- …

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Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.-Donatella Versace- …

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Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.-Bo Bennett- …

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.-Sophia Loren- …

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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.-Edward de Bono-  …

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Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.-Deepak Chopra- …

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I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.-Bill Gates- …

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Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.-Steve Jobs- …

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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.-Noam Chomsky- …

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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.-Ansel Adams- …

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All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.-Morihei Ueshiba- …

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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.-Saint Augustine- …

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Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin- …

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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.-Edmund Burke- …

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The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.-Charles Dickens- …

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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.-Carl Jung- …

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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.-Henry Miller- …

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Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.-Michael Jackson- …

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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.-George Bernard Shaw- …

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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.-Ralph Waldo Emerson- …

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Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.-Thich Nhat Hanh- …

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It's about your heart and about your consciousness. It's not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard come from children, who can barely speak.-Iyanla Vanzant- …

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And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.-Neale Donald Walsch - …

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Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.-Arthur Erickson- …

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The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.-Olivier Messiaen- …

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The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel- …

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Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.-Robert Lanza- …

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Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.-Alan Moore- …

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Life is a state of consciousness.-Emmet Fox- …

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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.-Barbara de Angelis- …

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.-Ayn Rand- …

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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.-Lao Tzu- …

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When you fully focus your mind, you make others attracted to you.-Toba Beta- …

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If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration.-Daniel Greenber- …

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When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.-Michael LeBoeuf- …

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Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great tranquility when concentration is strong and we have few, if any, thoughts. But other times, we can be flooded with memories, plans or random thinking. It's important not to blame yourself.-Sharon Sa…

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And how can you achieve such concentration? By recognizing that everything you do is important to God, and is one vital piece of the larger picture of your life.-Menachem Mendel Schneerson- …

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The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.-Arnold Palmer- …

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What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.-Arnold Palmer- …

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Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.-Jack Nicklaus-  …

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Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.-Chuck Norris- …

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Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.-Bill Russell-  …

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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.-Ramana Maharshi- …

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If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.-Sri Chinmoy- …

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How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.-Lou Holtz-  …

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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.-Larry Bird- …

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If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.-Paul Bryant- …

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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.-Vince Lombardi- …

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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.-Zig Ziglar- …

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You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.-Jason Mraz- …

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Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.-John Madden- …

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Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.-John Steinbeck- …

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It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.-Russell Brand- …

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I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.-Stephen Hawking- …

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.-Marcus Aurelius- …

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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.-Marcus Aurelius- …

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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.-Aldous Huxley- …

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I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.-Joan Jett- …

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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.-Joseph Campbell-  …

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When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.-Paulo Coelho- …

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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.-Lao Tzu- …

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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.-Wayne Dyer- …

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Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.-Joseph Campbell- …

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Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.-Kanye West- …

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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.-Edna St. Vincent Millay-  …

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Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.-Bill Shankly- …

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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- …

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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.-John Ruskin- …

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Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.-John Updike- …

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Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.-Lucius Annaeus Seneca- …

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The brain is wider than the sky.-Emily Dickinson- …

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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.-John Lubbock- …

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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.-Abdul Kalam- …

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God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.-Marcus Garvey- …

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.-Buddha- …

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The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey. -Enya- …

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According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.-Roy H. Williams- …

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The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.-Henry Beston- …

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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.-Isaac Bashevis Singer- …

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A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.-Sivananda- …

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Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.-Tommy Douglas- …

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When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.-Anton Chekhov- …

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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.-Blaise Pascal- …

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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.-H. L. Mencken- …

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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.-B. R. Ambedkar- …

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We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.-Mother Teresa- …

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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. -Mahatma Gandhi- …

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Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its own unhurried pace.-Brian Weis- …

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Meditation gives you an opportunity to come to know your invisible self. It allows you to empty yourself of the endless hyperactivity of your mind, and to attain calmness. It teaches you to be peaceful, to remove stress, to receive answers where confusion previously reigned.-Wayne Dyer- …

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As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery.  We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.-Dalai Lama- …

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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.-Buddha- …

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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.-Peace Pilgrim- …

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Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.-Dada Vaswani- …

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When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.-Abdullah Ibrahim- …

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others. -Gerald Jampolsky- …

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When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there. -George Harrison- …

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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.-Hannah Arendt- …

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Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable. -John Wooden- …

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Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind. -Sydney Madwed- …

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A great life is nothing more than a series of well lived days strung together like a necklace of pearls. -Robin Sharma- …

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You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards. -Brian Tracy- …

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An open society calls itself open to improvement. It is based on the recognition that people have divergent views and interests, and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth. -George Soros- …

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There's no good idea that can't be improved on. -Michael Eisner- …

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Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved. -Walt Disney- …

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If you stop learning, you stop creating history and become history. -Vadim Kotelnikov- …

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Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way. Remember the Japanese concept of Kaizen. Small daily improvements eventually result in huge advantages. -Bob Parsons- …

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Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day. -Brian Tracy- …

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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change. -Tom Peters- …

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I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders. -Tyra Banks- …

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Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends. -Brian Tracy- …

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A man can fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blames somebody else. -John Paul Getty- …

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If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking.  Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. -Raymond Inmon- …

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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. -John Muir- …

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. -T.S. Eliot- …

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You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place ? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of wha…

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Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which is minor — or you may get hurt, which is major. Instead of years of meditation, you have this activity that forces you to relax and monitor your breathing and tread that line between living and dying. When you climb, you …

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There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell, and with these in mind I say, climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste, look well to eac…

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One does not climb to attain enlightenment, rather one climbs because he is enlightened. -Zen Master Futomaki- …

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It's always further than it looks.It's always taller than it looks.And it's always harder than it looks. -The 3 rules of mountaineering- …

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When you ride your bike, you're working your legs, but your mind is on a treadmill. When you play chess, your mind is clicking along, but your body is stagnating. Climbing brings it together in a beautiful, magical way. The adrenaline is flowing, and it's flowing all the time. -Pat Ament- …

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Climbing is as close as we can come to flying. -Margaret Young- …

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Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb. -Greg Child- …

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You never climb the same mountain twice, not even in memory. Memory rebuilds the mountain, changes the weather, retells the jokes, remakes all the moves. -Lito Tejada- …

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Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they're supposed to help you discover who you are. -Bernice Johnson Reagon- …

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The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd. -R.S.Donnell- …

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To succeed you must first improve, to improve you must first practice, to practice you must first learn, and to learn you must first fail. -Wesley Woo- …

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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. -Dolly Parton- …

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Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. -Emory Austin- …

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My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated. -Bill Rodgers- …

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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. -Barbara Kingsolver- …