Ben Saunders Famous Quotes
Reading Ben Saunders quotes, download and share images of famous quotes by Ben Saunders. Righ click to see or save pictures of Ben Saunders quotes that you can use as your wallpaper for free.
The closer I got to my finish line, that rubbley (ph) rocky coast of Ross Island, the more I started to realize that the biggest lesson that this very long, very-hard walk might be teaching me is that happiness is not a finish line and that if we can't feel content on our journeys amidst the mess and the striving that we all inhabit - the open loops, the half-finished to-do lists, the could-do-better-next-times - then we might never feel it.
I don't think of myself as an explorer but as an athlete.
Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes very simple, it's about moving in a certain direction - north if you're going north - staying warm and not getting eaten. That's it.
When I'm skiing, I listen to electronic music. It's repetitive and let's me get into a groove and crank out the miles.
My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible, if I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn't be interested.
