If you're bumming out, you're not gonna get to the top, so as long as we're up here we might as well make a point of grooving. (Quoting Scott Fischer)
Jon KrakauerBut now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.
Jon KrakauerYou are wrong if you think Joy emanates only...from human relationships. God has placed it all around us...and all you have to do is reach for it.
Jon KrakauerChris would use the spiritual aspect to try to motivate us. "He'd tell us to think about all the evil in the world, all the hatred, and imagine ourselves running against the forces of darkness, the evil wall that was trying to keep us from running our best. He believed that doing well was all mental, a simple matter of harnessing whatever energy was available.
Jon Krakauer