Valleys Quotes - Page 16

• If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river flowing forever through a vast and fertile valley. Silent and uncreated, it creates all things.

  Laozi

  Rivers, Forever, Emptiness

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, People, Levels

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• I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his lance, I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge drawn by dogs, I see the porpoise-hunters, I see the whale-crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic, I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland - I mark the long winters and the isolation.

  James Joyce

  Dog, Winter, Whales

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• Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountain and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Spiritual, Mountain, Links

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

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• Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Death, Sweet, Prayer

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• It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well.

  Thomas Dolby

  Technology, Years, Two

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• Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone brought such grace and skill to the reconstruction of animals from disarticulated skeletons. Charles R. Knight, most celebrated of artists in the reanimation of fossils, painted all the canonical figures of dinosaurs that fire our fear and imagination to this day.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Science, Artist, Animal

  "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History".

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• Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Lying, Snow, Earth

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.28

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• The rains of Life's Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Rain, Pride, Blessing

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• The Path of Love is not a tedious Path. It's a Path of joy. It's a Path of singing and dancing. It's not a desert. It is a valley of flowers

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Flower, Love Is, Dancing

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• Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.

  Rick Warren

  Journey, Discovery, Despair

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• The great Pacific Railway is commenced... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in twenty years... This is the grandest enterprise under God!

  George Francis Train

  Years, Land, History

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• When you have big historic changes, there are going to be ups and downs... There are going to be peaks and valleys. Some things are going to go right. Some things are going to go wrong. But as long as the strategic direction is going in the right way, that's really what you have to judge.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Long, History, Judging

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• In your life there's peaks and valleys and sometimes we regress, and we don't even know we regress. You just have to learn how to accept all of your mistakes and learn to love yourself again.

  Mary J. Blige

  Mistake, Love You, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Mary J. Blige from Jan 30, 2013

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• I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Flower, Sea, Land

  Thabo Mbeki (1998). “Africa: the time has come : selected speeches”

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• Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountains and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life. Breathe in and let yourself soar to the ends of the universe; breathe out and bring the cosmos back inside. Next, breathe up all the fecundity and vibrancy of the earth. Finally, blend the breath of heaven and the breath of earth with your own, becoming the Breath of Life itself.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Heaven, Mountain, Next

  "The Art of Peace".

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• The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the child of God. There must be light, else there could be no shadow. Jesus is the light. He has overcome death.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Jesus, Children, Shadow Of Death

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• Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fall, Nihilism, Moral

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• The mountain is high, the valley is low, and you're confused on which way to go. So I've come here to give you a hand, and lead you into the promised land. So, come on and take a free ride, come on and sit here by my side, come on and take a free ride!

  Edgar Winter

  Travel, Confused, Hands

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• It is not on the pinnacle of success and ease where men and women grow most. It is often down in the valley of heartache and disappointment and reverses where men and women grow.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Disappointment, Adversity, Heartache

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• Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Sanctuary, Spirituality, Reverie

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrates, the so-called cradle of civilization, where plants were first grown for crops by settled communities, garden enclosures were also constructed. Gardens emphasized the contrast between two separate worlds: the outer one where nature remained awe-inspiringly in control and an inner artificially created sanctuary, a refuge for man and plants from the burning desert, where shade trees and cool canals refreshed the spirit and ensured growth.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Nature, Men, Garden

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• No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley

  John Maeda

  Technology, Ethos, Digital

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• There is a Precious Mountain
  Even the Seven Treasures cannot compare
  A cold moon rises through the pines
  Layer upon layer of bright clouds
  How many towering peaks?
  How many wandering miles?
  The valley streams run clear
  Happiness forever!

  Hanshan

  Running, Moon, Clouds

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• Often sit alone happy happy
  Thoughts somewhat far gone gone
  Clouds circle mountain soft soft
  Wind through valley swish swish
  Ape in tree bounce bounce
  Bird in forest chirp chirp
  Time turns hair gray gray
  Winter is here sad sad

  Hanshan

  Winter, Hair, Wind

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