This bonus edition of i-TFTD is inspired by my two-week vacation a couple of years ago, amongst the snow-clad mountains of Himachal Pradesh in North India:
#161-1. It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
-Edmund Hillary
(Another variation is:)
#161-2. You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.
-James Whittaker
#161-3. Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
-Anon
#161-4. In a flat country a hillock thinks itself a mountain.
-Turkish Proverb
#161-5. You cannot see the mountain near.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
#161-6. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
-Kahlil Gibran
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All these have little to do with mountains and everything to do with ourselves, our perspectives.
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