"Enslavement to your own weakness - be it……" — Wojciech Kurtyka
"Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading, and it means losing your dignity and your freedom."
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20 Quotes by Wojciech Kurtyka
Wojciech Kurtyka has 20 quotes on this site.
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In this way the climber faces his second deadly threat. The first is naturally the risk of killing the. Second…
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Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom.
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Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends…
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Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and…
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When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains,…
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I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life.
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I don't like egocentricity, which is something that I have arduously battled in myself my entire life.
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Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind…
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The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling…
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Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can…
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Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions.
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I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.
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More Addiction Quotes
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A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
— Mary Kay Ash
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment 'Roseanne' dropped out of the top ten, in…
— Roseanne Barr
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Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
— Drew Barrymore
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little…
— Bruce Barton
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
— Allan Bloom
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
— Lara Flynn Boyle
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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…
— Russell Brand
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