"It’s funny. I met a man once who……" — Mitch Albom

"It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up."

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To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science.… — Humphry Davy
Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to… — Alfred North Whitehead
The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth. — Albert Schweitzer
Remember that in ascending to the Father You could not leave us orphans; And in making yourself a prisoner on… — Therese of Lisieux
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whoever considers the Attributes of Allaah to be like the attributes of the creation, such that the Istawaa of Allaah… — Ibn Taymiyyah
Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end… — Raymond Queneau
NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity.… — Ambrose Bierce
Quiet solitude is a nutritional need of the ascending body. — Doreen Virtue
Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the… — Horace Mann
It is in the union of the Ascending and the Descending currents that harmony is found, and not in any… — Ken Wilber
An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you… — Abraham Isaac Kook

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