Mountain Quotes

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In snowbound, voiceless, mountain depths, to herald spring, pine trees sound in tune. — Princess Shikishi
You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. As the… — Li Bai
Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape… — Gautama Buddha
The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters hiself and minds the law. — Gautama Buddha
Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say that person is… — B. Alan Wallace
This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of… — Gautama Buddha
The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food,… — Gautama Buddha
The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain… — Li Bai
We accumulate pain, collect it. ... We display it, stack it up into a pile, then we stack it up into a mountain, so we… — Marlena De Blasi
Our way is not soft grass; it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun. — Ruth Westheimer
The best way to move a mountain is one stone at a time. Nothing is insurmountable if you take one step before you take the… — Debbie Shapiro
If you never play you will never lose, but you won't win either. If you never climb a mountain you will never know for sure… — Debbie Shapiro
Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to… — Tal Ben-Shahar
Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it;… — James Ramsey Ullman
Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the… — David
See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all. — Socrates
Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span… — Elizabeth Aston
One of the jobs of art is to inspire discussion, and Brokeback Mountain certainly has done that. It's like a window and a mirror. You're… — Diana Ossana
Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely. — Austin O'Malley
Human beings are not comparable. You can't compare us any more than you can compare roses and oranges, or mountains and the sea. You might… — Barbara Sher

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