Bhushan Shet > Bhushan's Quotes

“The first time u fall in love, it changes your life forever, and no matter how hard u try, the feeling never goes away. And no matter what u do, she'll stay with u forever.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“a person can get used to anything if given enough time”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story worth anything at all if I have no one to tell it to?”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“Happiness is only real, when shared.”
― Christopher McCandless

“We’re so self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. I’m tired of this shit. I’m tired of f-ing Earth Day. I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is that there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shit about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that some day in the future they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.

The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages … And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are!

We’re going away. Pack your shit, folks. We’re going away. And we won’t leave much of a trace, either. Maybe a little Styrofoam … The planet’ll be here and we’ll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet’ll shake us off like a bad case of fleas.

The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”

Plastic… asshole.”
― George Carlin

“To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate.”
― Bernadette McDonald

“And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...”
― Anna Godbersen, The Luxe

“There is no single, correct objective in mountaineering; there are only possibilities. One of them leads beyond the impossible.
- Reinhold Messner”
― Bernadette McDonald, Tomaz Humar

“What counts are merely the experiences one gains along the way.
-Reinhold Messner”
― Bernadette McDonald, Tomaz Humar

“... one of the most decisive factors enduring a borderline situation is the WILL TO SURVIVE.
-Reinhold Messner”
― Bernadette McDonald, Tomaz Humar

“Inner harmony is the prerequisite for any climber who seeks to push the frontiers; without it he should give up extreme mountaineering.
-Reinhold Messner”
― Bernadette McDonald, Tomaz Humar

“It is said that a man is rejuvenated every seven years- that all his cells are replaced. I wonder, does that also apply to his spirit?
- Reinhold Messner”
― Bernadette McDonald, Tomaz Humar

“... I only know that when physical and emotional reserves remain unchallenged, this feeds the spiritual cancer of a life unfulfilled.
-Reinhold Messner”
― Bernadette McDonald, Tomaz Humar

“A failed attempt on a virgin face of an eight thousander gives me much more than the successful ascent of a known route.”
― Bernadette McDonald, Tomaz Humar

“Only secrets can be conquered'- most of all the secrets that lie within ourselves.”
― Bernadette McDonald, Tomaz Humar

“The american climber Mark Twight, mentor of the Grivel climbing team, commented, "Now every ill-prepared sad sack whose ability falls short of his Himalayan ambitions can get on the radio, call for help, and expect the cavalry to save the day"
- on Tomaz Humar's rescue from Rupal Face of Nanga Parvat.”
― Bernadette McDonald, Tomaz Humar

“He (Tomaz Humar) doesn't conform to existing standards; he creates them.”
― Bernadette McDonald, Tomaz Humar

“... where mountains are sacred & where risk & death are constant companions- the Himalayas.”
― Bernadette McDonald, Tomaz Humar

“As climbers thronged the scope of Everest, the Rupal Face retained its solitude, remaining a formidable oabjective.”
― Bernadette McDonald, Tomaz Humar

“Tomaz believed that 80% alpinism was mental and spiritual and that his third eye vision & openness of his mind to the language of the walls were critical”
― Bernadette McDonald, Tomaz Humar

“Every mountain has its soul... if the mountain does not accept you & you don't submit to her will, she will destroy you.”
― Bernadette McDonald, Tomaz Humar

“In contrast, his parents considered climbing a completely useless and dangerous activity.”
― Bernadette McDonald, Tomaz Humar

“Life is beautiful, but only if you live it fully!”
― Bernadette McDonald, Tomaz Humar