I have found you an argument; But I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
~ Samuel Johnson
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Understanding →
Failures →
Without failures I would not be here. I learned most of what I know today through them. Maybe it was my partner, or the equipment was not proper, or the training—especially the mental training, which is the most important thing—were not good enough. With success, you don’t always know why you succeed, but when you fail, it’s clear what you did wrong. Then you can make changes and learn.
~ Reinhold Messner
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Moderation →
True happiness springs from moderation.
~ Goethe
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Just sitting there →
Don’t expect anything to happen. Just wait. This waiting is a deep acceptance of the moment as such. Nietzsche called it amor fati — unquestioning love of whatever has fated you to be here. You reach a point where you’re just sitting there, asking, “What is this?” — but with no interest in an answer. The longing for an answer compromises the potency of the question. Can you be satisfied to rest in this puzzlement, this perplexity, in a deeply focused and embodied way? Just waiting without any expectations?
~ Stephen Batchelor
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Not self-made →
[…] it is not true that I am self-made. Like everyone, to get to where I am, I stood on the shoulders of giants. My life was built on a foundation of parents, coaches, and teachers; of kind souls who lent couches or gym back rooms where I could sleep; of mentors who shared wisdom and advice; of idols who motivated me from the pages of magazines (and, as my life grew, from personal interaction).
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Weakness →
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
~ Victor Hugo
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Competition →
I would like to remove all competitions in outdoor sports. The competition is not the important thing. The important thing is to learn to behave with wild nature.
~ Reinhold Messner
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Pleasure →
Moderation is the pleasure of the wise.
~ Voltaire
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Riches and power →
To have what we want is riches; But to be able to do without it is power.
~ George MacDonald
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Dreary and repellant →
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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