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“When I was leaving the auditorium at the end of one of my lectures, someone shouted out, "You've been lucky!" That's right, I thought, I've had more luck than any man deserves.”
― Reinhold Messner, My Life at the Limit

tags: life, luck

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“To insist that the world has to be a certain way is dangerous idealism. You can't force your ideals on the world; you can only work toward them.”
― Reinhold Messner, My Life at the Limit

tags: idealism, ideals, world

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“The great challenges of life appear to us when, and only when, we have everything we need to survive and heal from the experience.”
― Gregg Braden, Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer: The Hidden Power of Beauty, Blessings, Wisdom, and Hurt: The Hidden Power of Beauty, Blessing, Wisdom and Hurt

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“And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

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“I don't think psychoanalysis is nonsense necessarily; I just don't see the point of it. An analyst can find out where the problem lie, but a witch from the jungle can do that as well. If I'm not allowed to live my own life, no psychologist is ever going to be able to help me. The real problem is that most people don't live their lives, they just get by somehow.”
― Reinhold Messner, My Life at the Limit

tags: authenticity, life, psychoanalysis, psychology, self-reflection

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