Himalayan-expedition Quote by Heinrich Harrer Download Open image ““There are times when visible poverty has its advantages.”” — Heinrich Harrer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Himalayan-expedition Poverty Time
“Poverty will make the best people bad, if it gets hard enough. Why there’s so much of it in the world, I’m sure I… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
“There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better.” — Tom Morrison Copy Share Image
“It is not poverty that is to be heared, but the lack of balance between riches and poverty.” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.” — Paula Brackston Copy Share Image
“We had learned on the North Face of the Eiger that men are good and the earth on which we were born is good.” — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
“The absolute simplicity. That's what I love. When you're climbing your mind is clear and free from all confusions. You have focus. And suddenly… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
“Rich or poor, all come full of devotion and with no inner misgivings to lay their offerings before the gods and to pray for… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
“Floating down the river, I could not keep my eyes off the Potala; I knew the Dalai Lama was on the roof looking at… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
“Decades of destruction, suppression, genocide, sterilization, and political indoctrination could not break the Tibetans’ will for freedom, or their deep-rooted religious beliefs. On” — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
“Tibetans are not famed for their perseverance. Full of enthusiasm at the start, and ready for anything new, their interest flags before long. For… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved,… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
“I have always envied the Tibetans their simple faith, for all my life I have been a seeker. Though I learned, while in Asia,… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
“It was inevitable that Red China would invade Tibet, and then there would be no place for us two friends of Tibetan independence.” — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
“What has since happened in Tibet is hardly to be believed. More than 1.2 million Tibetans lost their lives and of about six thousand… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
Fear... the right and necessary counterweights to that courage which urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.” — W.H. Murray Copy Share Image
