“From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.”

Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last to the North Pole.

Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.

I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

Optimism is true moral courage.

I do not know what ‘moss’ stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge… I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.

I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

If you’re a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you’ve got to keep going.

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

By endurance we conquer.

No person who has not spent a period of his life in those ‘stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole’ will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.

Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils’ taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

Every move whether it’s physical, emotional, or financial should be silent.

Don’t neglect yourself taking care of someone else. You don’t owe anyone your time, a quick text back, or emotional support when you need to be giving it to yourself first.

People have said ‘don’t cry’ to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is ‘I’m too uncomfortable when you show feelings.

We are emotionally contaminated by ourselves.

You have to accept that most people are mad at their perception of you, which is distorted by layers of unhealthy and unaffected emotional wounds.

Emotionally I’m an introvert but it come off as aggression.

You’re probably impatient with the one person that triggers a strong negative emotional reaction in you.

Let’s take a short break from the outside world because you are emotionally unavailable.