“It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life.”

— Aron Ralston , Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Source: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

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Mountain climber, autobiographer, motivational speaker 1975

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