Mountain Top Quotes - Page 4

• Stay positive but stay focused. Sometimes things can distract you and you don't want to be distracted on the journey to that mountain top.

  DJ Khaled

  Journey, Stay Positive, Mountain

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• Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life Is Too Short, Nurse, Mountain

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• There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all our resources, factual and confessional, so we are just there, collectively grasping, feeling the limitations of knowledge, longing together, yearning for a way to reach that highest point. Even this yearning is a way to know.

  Bell Hooks

  Feelings, Let It Go, Together

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• I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn.

  Shane Koyczan

  Letting Go, Art, Believe

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• I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

  Brenda Ueland

  Children, Writing, Creativity

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.

  John Muir

  Nature, Men, Space

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.321, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Mountain, Half, Oblivion

  Robert Macfarlane (2004). “Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit”, Vintage Books

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• And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Imagination, Mountain

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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