We don't need competition between people...There is competition between every person and this mountain. The last word always belongs to the mountain.- The Everest Movie

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"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope." Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"Perfection is the mountain that has no peak." Emma Norris

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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of sceneryair, mountains, trees, people.

I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rainare moving across the landscapes,over the prairies and the deep trees,the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,the world offers itself to your imagination,calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting over and over announcing your placein the family of things.

Mary Oliver