the climb...

"You don't know what the mountain's really like until you've climbed it. Any mountain looks tall if all you do is look up from below."

-Takamichi Kimoto in Mitsuru Adachi's "Katsu"

"It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that bad to fail, that hard to fall?"

"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly..."

—from Neil Gaiman's "Sandman"