Yvon Chouinard

Bondage is… subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Reality is a sliding door.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes … without stirring it up from the bottom. That’s where the bitter dregs are!

Real practice has no purpose or direction, so it can include everything that comes.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.