Himalayas Quotes

• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Mountain

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown, a charm that pervades every hour spent among them, a mystery intriguing and disturbing. Confronted by them, a man loses his grasp of ordinary things, perceiving himself as immortal, an entity capable of outdistancing all changes, all decay, all life, all death.

  Frank Smythe

  Men, Unseen, Ordinary

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• All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

  John Muir

  Wisdom, Nature, Autumn

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• When God gave men tongues, he never dreamed that they would want to talk about the Himalayas; there are consequently no words in the world to do it with.

  Sara Jeannette Duncan

  Men, World, Want

  Sara Jeannette Duncan, Thomas E. Tausky (1893). “The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib”, New York : D. Appleton and Company

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• The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night.

  Gautama Buddha

  Night, Arrows, Shining

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  Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Sunshine

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends on your own life and what you like and what you expect.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Travel, Kind, Peru

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• It's an adventure. I mean I spent a lot of time in the Himalayas and over the years have come to know them very well. I would say most important is the first sense you have in a place like that, and that is the sense of being on an adventure.

  Joe Rohde

  Adventure, Mean, Years

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• If you went to live in the Himalayas and everyone was lovely there, I'm sure it would be fairly easy to be a spiritual master.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Lovely, Would Be

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is. For it we pray."

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Prayer, Praying, Lord

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• I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.

  Fidel Castro

  Men, Personality

  "Know Thy Father". www.thedailystar.net. August 22, 2008.

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• Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

  Al Ries

  Marketing, Timing, Advertising

  Al Ries, Jack Trout (2006). “Marketing Warfare: 20th Anniversary Edition: Authors' Annotated Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it--and suddenly you forget your split, your schizophrenia; you relax. Or, moving in the Himalayas, seeing the virgin snow on the Himalayan peaks, suddenly a coolness surrounds you and you need not be false because there is no other human being to be false to. You fall together.

  Rajneesh

  Ocean, Moving, Fall

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• Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

  Edmund Hillary

  Attitude, Science, Climbing

  "Wise Guys: Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men". Book by Allan Zullo, p. 5, 2005.

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• There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Different, Fossils, Different Things

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.67, Canongate Books

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• But on the heights of the Himalayas I have a place where I am determined nothing shall enter except pure truth. There I want to work out this idea about which I have spoken to you today. There are an Englishman and an Englishwoman in charge of the place. The purpose is to train seekers of truth and to bring up children without fear and without superstition. They shall not hear about Christs and Buddhas and Shivas and Vishnus - none of these.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Children, Ideas

  Swami Vivekananda (1995). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• There is no absolute truth that the guy sitting in the cave in the Himalayas is useless, because he is at that point in his journey where he has experienced everything in the world and does not have an attraction to it anymore.

  Karan Bajaj

  Journey, Guy, Doe

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Real music will help you move towards meditation, beyond the mind needs, towards spiritual needs. Real poetry will give you a glimpse of the minds of the sages - a glimpse of course. It will open a window so you can see the faraway distant Himalayas. And then an urge arises in you, and you start travelling.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Real, Moving

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• I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.

  Scilla Elworthy

  Names, Flew, Dangerous

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• There are men who practice Titiksha, and succeed in it. There are men who sleep on the banks of the Ganga in the midsummer sun of India, and in winter float in the waters of the Ganga for a whole day; they do not care. Men sit in the snow of the Himalayas, and do not care to wear any garment. What is heat? What is cold? Let things come and go, what is that to me, I am not the body.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sleep, Winter, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.951, Manonmani Publishers

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• An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky; it is grounded in flight, the earth mutated--nearly--into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted. Long before she ever encountered the mountain, Allie was aware of its brooding presence in her soul.

  Salman Rushdie

  Air, Land, Sky

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the ninth century B.C. All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us. They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Meditation, Heaven

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• The Himalayan Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have been among the most affected by global warming. The Himalayas...provide more than half of the drinking water for 40% of the world's population...Within the next half-century, that 40% of the world's people may well face a very serious drinking water shortage, unless the world acts boldly and quickly to mitigate global warming.

  Al Gore

  Drinking, People, Water

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