"To submit to other peoples guidelines has never been acceptable to me; I would far prefer to live a few short decades doing what I enjoyed, than to spend a life conforming to rules hedged in by convention and mediocrity"
-Reinhold Messner The Big Walls
"Only the unknown can be overcome -most of all, the unknown within ourselves. I have proof positive of "The impossible" but none of the inconceivable"
-Reinhold Messner The Big Walls
"What matters is to evolve one's own standards, not to be coerced by any outside attitudes, and above all, to find one's own goal within oneself."
-Reinhold Messner The Big Walls
"There is nothing we can do for our friends but to leave them their pleasures and to increase their happiness by enjoying it with them."
-Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther
"However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there is life, there is hope."
-Stephen Hawking
-"I only know that underealisation of the bodily and emotional resources promotes a cancer of the soul, an unlived life."
-Reinhold Messner The Big Walls
"Every man dies, not every man really lives."
-Brave Heart
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