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HAPPINESS is ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED
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To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path:…
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Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was…
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Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call,…
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Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just…
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It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found.…
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The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.
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Those who would assail the Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity…
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Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen…
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In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team.
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There is something special about a quiet untouched forest that just pulls you into the moment. Something that no parks will ever…
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Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.
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I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really…
— Kiefer Sutherland
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There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved…
— Norman Mailer
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I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness.
— Karen Duffy
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No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama…
— David Frawley
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Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.
— Gabriel Fielding
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Christopher Nolan’s 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness.
— Joe Morgenstern
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I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all…
— Regina Spektor
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
— Raymond Queneau
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That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
— Andrew Wiles
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The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad,…
— George Saintsbury
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