Nadeshda Ney

“I am my mother’s caresses, and the serene kindness with which my father calmly guided me; I am my adolescent travels; I am what my reading has deposited in layers in my mind; I am my loves, my moments of despair, my friendships, what I’ve written, what I’ve heard; the faces engraved on my memory. I am, above all, the one who a minute ago made a cup of tea for himself. The one who a moment ago typed the word “memory” into his computer. The one who just composed the sentence that I am now completing. If all this disappeared, would I still exist? I am this long, ongoing novel. My life consists of it.”
― Carlo Rovelli, L'ordine del tempo

“When one comes to the essence of being,
The shining wisdom of reality
Illumines all like the cloudless sky.”
― Milarepa, The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa

“Good teachers help you believe in yourself, rather than cultivate a belief in them. They teach you to connect to the divinity within you.”
― Anita Moorjani, Sensitive Is the New Strong: The Power of Empaths in an Increasingly Harsh World

“but that is the whole point: I have to push my limits to the max. Sitting tight, waiting it out and living in the past, has never been my thing. I want to be at the world’s highest point again, knowing it might slip out from underneath me at any moment. Because that is the only way to live”
― Nimsdai Purja, Beyond Possible: One Man, 14 Peaks, and the Mountaineering Achievement of a Lifetime