Adhiambo Agoro

“This moment of recognition reflected back at me in her face. It's not even something I can see, but something I feel. It's not my mom and my dad or my brothers. It's me. My own confusion, my own fear. She could look like a stranger to me, and I'd still feel it as plainly.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“This stretching of self beyond stretchable boundaries, this glory of being where few have stood, of listening and seeing, of feeling the sun and the rock, somehow matters very much. The exhilaration is worth every bit of the discomfort and duress. I have pushed through discomfort to another level of being. I love being here, shot through with sunlight, incandescing it outward as I receive it inward. I feel an outer glory like an aura or a nimbus”
― Ann Zwinger, Wind in the Rock: The Canyonlands of Southeastern Utah

“You think more about the mountain you climbed when you are at the foothills, not when you are at the top! What you think at the top is the things you left below!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“In mountaineering, those who think that it is a terrible tragedy to fail when close to the top and come back are people who are so naive as to be completely unaware of those who reached the top and never came back! Sometimes the best way to reach a goal is to give up on that goal for a while!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan