Quotes on Mountain

Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back.

Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved.

I want that love that moved the mountains. _x000D_ I want that love that split the ocean. _x000D_ I want that love that made the winds tremble. _x000D_ I want that love that roared like thunder. _x000D_ I want that love that will raise the dead. _x000D_ I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy. _x000D_ I want that love that is the silence of eternity.

For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door.

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.

We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.

Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not forget the mountaineers who have not returned from the summits.

Beyond what we wish _x000D_ and what we fear may happen _x000D_ we have another life, _x000D_ as clear and free as a mountain stream.

I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains,_x000D_ Of rugged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains._x000D_ I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea,_x000D_ Her beauty and her terror - the wide brown land for me!

The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on its back, so too does every living creature have its own perfection built into it.

But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains and a tranquil mind upon reaching their summits, as though I had escaped from the disappointments and unkindness of life and emerged above them into a new world, a better world.

The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a feeling and a love that had no need of a remoter charm by thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.

What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance. Never settle for the path of least resistance. Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin'. Lovin might be a mistake but it's worth makin'.

Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche

The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.