"You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now."
- Yvon Chouinard
Happiness
"How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top."
- Yvon Chouinard
Success
"The solution maybe for a lot of the world’s problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can’t just keep trying to make a flawed system work."
- Yvon Chouinard
Change
"There are a dozen reasons for climbing, some bad, and I’ve used most of them myself. The worst are fame and money. Commonly people cite exploration or discovery, but that’s rarely relevant in today’s world. The only good reason to climb is to improve yourself."
- Yvon Chouinard
Self-improvement
"I have a little different definition of evil than most people — When you have the opportunity and the ability to do good and you do nothing, that’s evil. Evil doesn’t always have to be an overt act, it can be merely the absence of good."
- Yvon Chouinard
Morality
"Simplicity is the easiest path to true beauty."
- Seishuu Handa
Simplicity
"La vida es simple, pero insistimos en hacerla complicada."
- Confucio
Simplicity
"Less is more."
- Rone
Simplicity
"I’ve spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn’t reach the heart."
- Hans Zimmer
Simplicity
"Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough."
- Charles Warner
Simplicity