We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all.

Sometimes you must sacrifice yourself on the altar of effort to be reminded of what and who you could become if you applied yourself.

Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.

Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort.

I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

I scavenged for sensation, sought myself in the rewards of being out there, across the Border.

Everything costs something everyone pays