The mountains are calling, and I must go.

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"The world is big, and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark."

- John Muir

Awareness

"Most people are on the world, not in it – having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them."

- John Muir

Awareness

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."

- John Muir

Awareness

"And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul."

- John Muir

Self-awareness

"You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you."

- John Muir

Self-awareness

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"What a wonderful time to be young! You have knowledge of many more things than we needed to have. It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours — better in many ways! I have faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it!"

- President Boyd K. Packer

Ambition

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

Ambition

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

Ambition

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

Ambition

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

Ambition