“Do you think the people who were trying to reach to the Everest were not full of doubts? For a hundred years, how many people tried and how many people lost their lives? Do you know how many people never came back? But, still, people come from all over the world, risking, knowing they may never return. For them it is worth it – because in the very risk something is born inside of them: the center. It is born only in the risk. That’s the beauty of risk, the gift of risk.”
“Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.”
“Just like a dream experience,
Whatever things I enjoy
Will become a memory.
Whatever has passed will not be seen again.”
“Such is the nature of man,
that for your first gift – he prostrates himself;
for your second – kisses your hand;
for the third – fawns
for the fourth – just nods his head once;
for the fifth – becomes too familiar;
for the sixth – insults you
and for the seventh – sues you because he was not given enough.”
“We all have different faces, characters and names. If God wanted us to be all same, He would have done it. Not to respect the differences, to accuse the others for our faults is not to respect God.”