"[ironically] Do what you love, but stay on the assembly line. There’s no time to find what you love, you should be building your credit score. Take risks, but don’t be foolish. Believe in yourself, but only if you’ve proven you should...Don’t embarrass yourself. Don’t waste time at a job you hate, but magically manifest money to leave that job and chase a dream. Got it? Perfect." — Jedidiah Jenkins To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
"One good solid hope's worth a cart-load of certainties." — 4th Doctor Doctor Who, "Warrior's Gate"
"Dreams have a funny way of becoming reality when you put yourself in the position for them to happen." — Katie Lambert Alpinist Magazine, Issue 66, "Magic Line"
"Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded." — Jess Lair
"It’s not about a list. It’s about the experiences. The list just gets you out there." — Brendon Leonard Semi-Rad, "The Point Of Doing Pointless Things With Your Friends"
"Setting goals and being too focused on your goal can prevent you from taking other opportunities that are presenting themselves to you. It’s better to lead your life by dreams and what if’s than by concrete goals that you’re 100% dedicated to." — Unknown heard on a podcast
"Set goals for what you want to feel rather than what you want to accomplish. Nothing ever goes quite to plan, so leave yourself open to opportunities." — Unknown heard on a podcast
"It is one of the most futile emotions we entertain – mourning something that never existed as if it had been promised to us." — Carolyn Highland Wild Snow, "A Grand Traverse Gone Awry"
"If we’ve written the endings before we’ve lived them, we’re doomed for disappointment." — Andrew Steven Adventure Journal, "Trail Weight: Losing 100 Pounds to Hike the John Muir Trail"
"Of course, goals help us get a lot done. But they often remove our attention from the experience to the achievement." — Jedidiah Jenkins To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting, in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be." — Zig Ziglar
"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine." — Darren Hardy The Compound Effect
"What’s the point of being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes?" — 4th Doctor Doctor Who, "Robot"
"When you’re a kid, they tell you it’s all… Grow up, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid, and that’s it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It’s so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better." — Elton Pope Doctor Who, "Love and Monsters"
"[Age] is in your head. It’s whatever you believe. You know, my parents were old when they were in their 40s; that’s the way they thought. The way they acted. It was their assumptions about life. I’m not like that; I think you can talk yourself into anything. Age is just a number, as long as your body is willing. Age is meaningless." — Dierdre Wolownick (Alex Honnold's mom) Adventure Journal
"The trick is to die young as late as possible." — Wolf Bauer via Lowell Skoog Written in the Snows
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." — Dumbledore Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
"If you cultivate your ability to create Adventure, wherever you are, you will feel alive." — Paul Ramer Backcountry Magazine, Issue 2, "Where's the Adventure?"
"The journey is the reward...Embracing the journey, focusing on things in my control, accepting what I have no control over, acknowledging missteps, doing the best with the hand I am dealt, and focusing on the process not the end result—this is the essential mindset." — Jeremy Jones The Art of Shralpinism
"There's usually a great outcome if you train your mind to look for one." — Jeremy Jones The Art of Shralpinism
