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• It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doe, Soar, Aim

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.139

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• Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Inspirational, Heaven, Earth

  "You Can Save the Earth: 7 Reasons Why and 7 Simple Ways, a Philosophy for the Future" by Hatherleigh, Sean K. Smith, and Andrew Flach, (p. 92), 2008.

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• If the going is tough and the pressure is on, If the reserves of strength have been drained and the summit is still not in sight, then the quality to seek in the person is neither great strength nor quickness of hand, but rather a resolute mind firmly set on its purpose that refuses to let its body slack or rest.

  Edmund Hillary

  Sight, Hands, Mind

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• I have reached the summit of my ambition.

  Andrew Johnson

  Ambition, My Ambition

  Andrew Johnson, LeRoy P. Graf, Ralph W. Haskins, Paul H. Bergeron (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: 1858-1860”, p.159, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Climbing, Hiking, Mountain

  STANISLAW LEM (1974). “THE CYBERIAD”

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• The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march, the long march. Ten thousand waters and a thousand mountains are nothing. The Five Sierras meander like small waves, the summits of Wumeng pour on the plain like balls of clay. Cliffs under clouds are warm and washed below by the River Gold Sand. Iron chains are cold, reaching over the Tatu River. The far snows of Minshan only make us happy and when the army pushes through, we all laugh. October 1935

  Mao Zedong

  Happiness, Laughter, Army

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.63, Univ of California Press

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• I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Anniversary, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Cities

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• No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

  Marcel Proust

  Practice, Vices, Literature

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

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• There is no summit in art; there is only continuous climbing!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Art, Climbing

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• Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love Is, Men, Earth

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• Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the top of a mountain. Sure, the view is great, but what's a view for? A view just gives us a glimpse of our next destination-our next target. But to hit that target, we must come off the mountain, go through the valley, and begin to climb the next slope. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Views, Giving

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• Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.

  John Keats

  Tree, Way, Life Is

  "The poetical works of John Keats".

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• What you think is the summit is only a step up

  Seneca the Younger

  Thinking, Steps, Step Up

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• The summit is not the only place on the mountain.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Mountain

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• A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer to mysterious skies, for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored to reach a summit.

  Earl Hamner, Jr.

  Sky, People, Feelings

  "Fictional character: Narrator". TV Series "The Waltons" ("The Hunt", 1972), www.imdb.com. (1971–1981).

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• Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Despair, Nerves, Valleys

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1124, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, they speak to me. The summit of the mountain, the thunder of the sky, the rhythm of the sea, speaks to me. The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me. The strength of the fire, the taste of the salmon, the trail of the sun, and the life that never goes away, they speak to me. And my heart soars.

  Chief Dan George

  Morning, Nature, Stars

  Chief Dan George, “My Heart Soars”

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• Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christianity, Virtue, Mercy

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• More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.

  Jon Stewart

  Giving, Prejudice, Chance

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• Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from the tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end.

  Jon Krakauer

  Perspective, Missing, Mountain

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

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• To see the big picture, get out of the dark valleys, climb to the sunny summits!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dark, Valleys, Sunny

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• Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Wise, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.522, e-artnow

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• President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.

  Conan O'Brien

  Baseball, Awkward, President

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• Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Justice, Affair

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.464, Рипол Классик

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• Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there. And you could hike to the top from another direction. How you get there is the important part. It's the same with surfing.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Sports, Adventure, Climbing

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