The truth is that adversity is a part of most days. Whether you are ultimately weakened or strengthened by each event, or the accumulation of events,…

- Erik Weihenmayer

When I went blind at 13, I realized that I wasn't going to be a good baseball or basketball player like I enjoyed before. It forced me to look beyond…

- Erik Weihenmayer

Climbing is actually a great sport for blind people and that carried me on to climbing bigger and bigger mountains, snowy mountains, ice faces, and d…

- Erik Weihenmayer

There is a very blurry line between the things we can't do and the things that we can.

- Erik Weihenmayer

People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.

- Erik Weihenmayer

It is exciting to kind of figure things out in yourself and then use other people to help you figure things out so you can really reach your potentia…

- Erik Weihenmayer

I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.

- Erik Weihenmayer

You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.

- Erik Weihenmayer

Maybe people, maybe the world writes things off as impossible a little too quickly, when they really aren't - when they just haven't reached out and …

- Erik Weihenmayer