Joanna Baillie Quotes

I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain.

Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid.

A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.

You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.

My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every time when you finally get there.

Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

You soon realize that the peak you've climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb...And the more you climb, the more you want to climb - even though you're dead tired.

Everyone's trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.

The saddest moment in a child's life is not when he learns that Santa Claus isn't real, it's when he learns that Vince Russo is.

Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

Some day I'm going to climb Everest.

When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall.

And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.