Mountain Quotes - Page 24

• We accumulate pain, collect it. ... We display it, stack it up into a pile, then we stack it up into a mountain, so we can climb up onto it, waiting for or demanding sympathy: "Hey, do you see how big my pain is?"

  Marlena De Blasi

  Pain, Waiting, Feelings

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• If you never play you will never lose, but you won't win either. If you never climb a mountain you will never know for sure how good the view is.

  Debbie Shapiro

  Winning, Views, Play

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• Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.

  James Ramsey Ullman

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Ocean

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• Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Nature, Heaven, Inspire

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the jobs of art is to inspire discussion, and Brokeback Mountain certainly has done that. It's like a window and a mirror. You're looking through a window at lives you may or may not have experienced. But it's a mirror in the sense we've all felt lonely; we're all, at one time or another, looking for and hoping for love.

  Diana Ossana

  Lonely, Art, Jobs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums depicted in old literati paintings. My innermost feeling which was awakened by the same mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums has been totally and utterly changed. Moreover, like an apparition, it hides deep down in my vessels. The very trees and rocks have become the storage of memories and emotions from various eras. Forced by the rapid change of time and perspective, I cannot help but feel urged to face up to these things once again.

  Zhang Xiaogang

  Memories, Rocks, Perspective

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• Once you become an actor, it's important to take care of yourself. I live in Santa Monica, where I can mountain bike, hike and go running on the beach. I like a nice sunset jog.

  Mark Feuerstein

  Running, Beach, Nice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so we can turn its mountains into money.

  Erik Reece

  World, Sin, Modern

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• I have commanded that my [titulary] abide like the mountains; when the sun shines its rays are bright upon the titulary of my majesty; my Horus is high upon the standard ... forever.

  Hatshepsut

  Sunshine, Egypt, Forever

  Inscriptions at Djeser-Djeseru, as quoted in "Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest" by James Henry Breasted, 1906.

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• Make a promise: now that you have discovered a force that you were not even aware of, tell yourself that from now on you will use this force for the rest of your days. Preferably, also promise to discover another mountain, and set off on another adventure.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Adventure

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• She sang a lot of songs. 'The Bear Went Over the Mountain' and things like that. But the one she was really good at singing was 'I Found a Peanut.' Now I know why she sang that so many times.

  Bobby Petrino

  Song, Singing, Bears

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• Know how to get close to it: mountains are often seen from far off - beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. But what happens when we try to draw closer? Roads run all around them, flowers grow between you and your objective, what seemed so clear on the map is tough in real life. So try all the paths and all the tracks until eventually one day you're standing in front of the top that you yearn to reach.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Beautiful, Running

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• There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Would Be, Wonderful

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• If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Funny, Wall

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.270, Harvard University Press

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• Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live long in the presence of towering mountains or sweeping plains without getting a little of the high moral standard of Nature infused into his being ... with eyes opened, the great story of the Earth's forming, the history of a tree, the life of a flower or the activities of some small animal will all unfold themselves to the recreationist.

  Arthur Carhart

  Flower, Eye, Animal

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• Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest the white summit of Everest appeared.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Sky, White, Imagination

  "Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921". Book by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury and George Leigh Mallory, 1922.

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• You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Life, Long, Shining

  Robinson Jeffers (1965). “Selected poems”, Vintage

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• When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits himself against the mountain, he taps inner springs of his strength. He comes to know himself.

  William O. Douglas

  Spring, Sleep, Journey

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• Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Life, Witty, Bad Day

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Respect your body: you can only climb a mountain if you give your body the attention it deserves. You have all the time that life grants you, as long as you walk without demanding what can't be granted. If you go too fast you will grow tired and give up half way there. If you go too slow, night will fall and you will be lost. Enjoy the scenery, take delight in the cool spring water and the fruit that nature generously offers you, but keep on walking.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Giving Up, Spring

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• I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.

  Ezra Cornell

  Moon, Telescopes, Fine

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• Sometimes an unimportant incident is capable of turning everything beautiful into a moment of anxiety. We insist on seeing the mote in the eye and forget about the mountains, the fields and the olive groves.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Beautiful, Inspiration

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• Strolling on the plateau of life, desperate for the mountain, I never thought that I would get this far. It's only art that has carried me through, given me faith in my own existence. But now I am approaching a point in my life where I desire more.

  Tracey Emin

  Art, Desire, Desperate

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• O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
  Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Fall, Men, Mind

  "No worst, there is none" l. 9 (written 1885)

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• In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Lakes

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.321

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