Mountain Quotes - Page 36

• Between the shores of the oceans and the summit of the highest mountain is a secret route that you must absolutely take before being one with the sons of the Earth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Ocean, Son, Climbing

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• Everyone praises the views you get from mountain tops, but no one talks about the views that they block.

  Nils Kjaer

  Block, Climbing, Views

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• When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the admiration of many people. Being defeated means being limited to the basis existential choices of life. If you can enjoy the quiet evening hours it is beautiful; a hero who always succeeds may not have time to enjoy such things.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Beautiful, Hero, Mean

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• I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Dream, Climbing, Eyelids

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• If there is such a thing as spiritual materialism, it is displayed in the urge to possess the mountains rather than to unravel and accept their mysteries.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Spiritual, Climbing, Mystery

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• Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is the application of a knowledge to an action.

  Rene Daumal

  Art, Climbing, Care

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• A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.

  Francois Mauriac

  Passion, Men, Climbing

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• Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for the greater satisfaction to be derived from mountaineering.

  Doug Scott

  Commitment, Climbing, Weather

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• You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.

  Willi Unsoeld

  Nature, Travel, Sight

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• While ice is not really alive, it is certainly animate. It exists in an dynamic state of perpetual vibration, flux and movement. Enjoy its existence, and its safe passage in the mountains.

  Wil McCarthy

  Climbing, Ice, Movement

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• Through woods and mountain passes The winds, like anthems, roll.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Clouds, Air

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.6

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• In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base spreads out in manifold foothills into the world of mortals. It is the way by which man can raise himself to the divine and by which the divine can reveal itself to man.

  Rene Daumal

  Men, Sky, World

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• We do not ask the mountain's aid to crack a walnut.

  Wole Soyinka

  Cracks, Aids, Walnuts

  Wole Soyinka (1989). “Selected poems”

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• Mountains should not be judged by altitude.

  Louis L'Amour

  Should, Judged

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• For every mountain there is another one. The big question is if you reach the top of the mountain, what then? What do you do then? I suppose you die.

  Frank Lowy

  Business, Economics, Bigs

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• Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are.

  John Denver

  Music, Stars, Future

  Song: The Eagle and the Hawk, Album: Aerie, 1972

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• There's always gonna be another mountain, I'm always gonna wanna make it move, Always gonna be a uphill battle, Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose, Ain't about how fast I get there, Ain't about what's waiting on the other side, It's the climb

  Miley Cyrus

  Moving, Waiting, Battle

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• We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.

  Oswald Chambers

  Ordinary, Saws, Gray Days

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.232, Discovery House

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• Getting people to fight by letting the force of momentum work is like rolling logs and rocks. Logs and rocks are still when in a secure place, but roll on an incline; they remain stationary if square, they roll if round. Therefore, when people are skillfully led into battle, the momentum is like that of round rocks rolling down a high mountain - this is force.

  Sun Tzu

  Fighting, Squares, Rocks

  Sunzi, Sun-Tzu, Thomas Cleary (1998). “The illustrated art of war”, Shambhala Pubns

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• Your life is infinite. You are as old as these mountains and you will remain for ever.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Life Is, Infinite

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• You have two choices: You can come down from the mountain and spend the rest of your days thinking it was so beautiful there, or you can create a vision, look upward, see the next mountain, and start the climb all over again.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Beautiful, Thinking, Two

  "Oprah: Owning It" by Laura Brown, Slide 1, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 15, 2012.

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• Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.

  Gautama Buddha

  Thinking, Water, Negative

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• If you embrace possibility thinking, your dreams will go from molehill to mountain size, and because you believe in possibilities, you put yourself in position to achieve them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Believe, Thinking

  John C. Maxwell (2009). “How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• You cannot see the mountain near.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1623, Delphi Classics

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• Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the blood of Indian thought has flowed, and is still flowing into the veins of other nations of the globe, whether in a distinct or in some subtle unknown way. Perhaps to us belongs the major portion of the universal ancient inheritance.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Distance, Ocean, Blood

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1794, Manonmani Publishers

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