Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent. — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down.” — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
There is no sudden entrance into Heaven. Slow is the ascent by the path of Love. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The ascent is the aim of your life and to perfect it is your job. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence. — Dion Fortune 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
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
Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations. — Mikhail Gorbachev 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
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
Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light. — May Sarton 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
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
“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
“His life, like every other life, could be graphed: an ascent that rises to a peak, pauses at a particular node, and… — Guy Vanderhaeghe 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
“You can lose any particular short-term battle of will, but if you give yourself dozens, hundreds, thousands of opportunities to improve with… — Sebastian Marshall 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
In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
