Mountain Quotes - Page 28

• Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.

  James Dyson

  Problem, Life Is, Enjoy

  "James Dyson on Using Failure to Drive Success". Interview with Nadia Goodman, www.entrepreneur.com. November 5, 2012.

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• Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique event in itself. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountains which sustain life, not the top.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Mean, Unique, Reality

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• What I’m saying is I think life is staggering and we’re just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we’re given—it’s just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.

  Donald Miller

  Children, Moving, Sunset

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

  Saint Augustine

  Stars, Sea, Rivers

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• This is pure snow! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?

  Curtis Armstrong

  Money, Ideas, Snow

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• Nothing you do makes much of a difference if you do not have charity. You can speak with tongues, have the gift of prophecy, understand all mysteries, and possess all knowledge; even if you have the faith to move mountains, without charity it won't profit you at all.... Without charity-or the pure love of Christ-whatever else we accomplish matters little. With it, all else becomes vibrant and alive.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Moving, Differences, Alive

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• The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

  Rumi

  World

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• There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
  There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine.
  O traveller, if you are in search of that
  Don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.

  Rumi

  Journey, Hiking, Soul

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “There Is A Life-Force Within Your Soul”

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• Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life

  David Allan Coe

  Hiking, Giving, Given

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• If economic catastrophe does come, will it be a time that draws Christians together to share every resource we have, or will it drive us apart to hide in our own basements or mountain retreats, guarding at gunpoint our private stores from others? If we faithfully use our assets for his kingdom now, rather than hoarding them, can't we trust our faithful God to provide for us then?

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Faithful, Together

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.517, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Views, Medieval, Filled

  "Press Clips". The Village Voice, January 21, 1980.

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• Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming into view, so Scripture may guide those adrift on the sea of the life back into the harbor of the divine will.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Light, Mountain Peaks, Views

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• The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.

  David Trimble

  Distance, Dark, Past

  "Peace 1996-2000". Book by Irwin Abrams, 2005.

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• Faith can remove a mountain, but doubt can put it back in place again

  Tage Danielsson

  Doubt, Atheism, Remove

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• Soul Mountain, the story of one man’s quest for inner peace and freedom.

  Gao Xingjian

  Men, Soul, Inner Peace

  Gao Xingjian (2000). “Soul Mountain”

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• Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self confidence that comes from truly being loved.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Self Confidence, Missionary, Impossible

  H. Burke Peterson (1986). “A glimpse of glory”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible, by faith in the omnipotence, fidelity, and wisdom of the Almighty Saviour Who gave the command. Is there a wall in our path? By our God we will leap over it! Are there lions and scorpions in our way? We will trample them under our feet! Does a mountain bar our progress? Saying, 'Be thou cast into the sea,' we will march on. Soldiers of Jesus! Never surrender!

  Charles Studd

  Jesus, Wall, Sea

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• Believing is a fine thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. Many are those who talk like the roar of the sea, gut their lives are shallow and stagnant, like the rotting marshes. Many are those who lift their heads above the mountain tops, but their spirits remain dormant in the obscurity of the caverns.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Believe, Sea

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• Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to behold and commune with something grander than man. Their mere distance and unprofanedness is an infinite encouragement. it is with infinite yearning and aspiration that I seek solitude, more and more resolved and strong; but with a certain weakness that I seek society ever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Encouragement, Strong, Distance

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.

  William Golding

  Two, Laughing, Effort

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.25, Hamilton Books

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• When you ride your bike, you're working your legs, but your mind is on a treadmill. When you play chess, your mind is clicking along, but your body is stagnating. Climbing brings it together in a beautiful, magical way. The adrenaline is flowing, and it's flowing all the time.

  Pat Ament

  Beautiful, Climbing, Play

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• The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are not crazy because they don't dare, they're crazy because they do. These people tend to enjoy life to the fullest, laugh the hardest, travel the most, and work the least.

  Lisa Morgan

  Crazy, Climbing, Hiking

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• Live each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. So climb slowly, enjoying each passing moment; and then the view from the summit will serve a more rewarding climax for your journey.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Life, Motivational, Beautiful

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• By death the moon was gathered in Long ago, ah long ago;
  Yet still the silver corpse must spin
  And with another's light must glow.
  Her frozen mountains must forget
  Their primal hot volcanic breath,
  Doomed to revolve for ages yet,
  Void amphitheatres of death.
  And all about the cosmic sky,
  The black that lies beyond our blue,
  Dead stars innumerable lie,
  And stars of red and angry hue
  Not dead but doomed to die.

  Julian Huxley

  Death, Stars, Lying

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• Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.

  Confucius

  Famous Inspirational, Men, Moles

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