
“Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.”
Source: No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Source: Forbidden Falls
“Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.”
Source: No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
“Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.”
“The suffering inflicted by this present order invariably produces a struggle to overcome it.”
Conclusion, p. 275
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 1, “Don’t Try” (p. 11)
“History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles.”
Source: Eona: The Last Dragoneye
“Life is that which is discontent, which struggles and seeks, which suffers and creates.”
Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 1 : Our life begins
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Karma
"Como se gobiernan las Filipinas" (How one governs in the Philippines), published in La Solidaridad (15 December 1890)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 335.