In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence. — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
Only your ascent is important. Once you ascend, everything is saved — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent… — Mark Twain 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
Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible. — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Witness state is not a mental state, it is a state of a spiritual ascent where you become a witness. Best way… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Climb the ladder only if it takes you to somewhere high! Some ascents may descend you to low places! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We need to conceptualize; we need to articulate conservative domestic policy with a laser focus on opportunity, on easing the means of… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent,… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the… — C. S. Lewis 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
When Seoul hosted the Games in 1988, it became a symbol of the Asian Tigers' ascent onto the world stage. In 1992,… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil;… — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory?… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
Like all passions, anger has degrees, ascending from slight vexation through deepening clouds to rage, and finally to fury, which is a… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
I'm a rock climber. I really specialize in doing first ascents, and finding new routes outside, as opposed to doing competitions. I… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
“Though I cannot entirely agree with you in supposing that extreme study has been the cause of my late indisposition, I must… — Augustus Toplady Copy Share Image
What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity of heaven;… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how… — William Law Copy Share Image
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
It is not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent. — Anne Michaels 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
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
The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Narrow the focus, take the ascent one step at a time, and it's amazing what odds a man can beat.” — Courtney Schafer Copy Share Image
In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its ascent, but very soon I… — Lucy Irvine Copy Share Image
Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“To refuse the sacrifice of the ascent is to miss the fact that the grandeur of the valley can only be fully… — Craig D. Lounsbrough 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
