The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but,… — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable… — John Stokes Copy Share Image
There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power:… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who lives for the moment. If you concern yourself with what's going to happen a year from… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution --… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Honour is Virtue's allowed ascent: honour that clasps All perfect justice in her arms; that craves No more respect than that she… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
