Ascent Quote by William Carlos Williams Download Open image “The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned” — William Carlos Williams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ascent Descent
“THE DESCENT SEEMED faster than the ascent: standard in travel as well as in life.” — Faye Kellerman Copy Share Image
In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The heights by which great men reach are not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept went toiling upwards through the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object—the joy of living—is not in the peak itself, but… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
The ascent is the aim of your life and to perfect it is your job. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“We must come down from our heights, and leave our straight paths for the by-ways and low places of life, if we would learn… — Richard Henry Dana Jr 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: but the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“We must come down from our heights, and leave our straight paths, for the byways and low places of life, If we would learn… — Richard Henry Dana Jr Copy Share Image
“A self-evident and prefabricated symbolism attaches itself to this slow climb to the zenith, and we are not so foolishly ironic, or confident, as… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“The great shapes of the hills, embrowned and glowing with the molten hues of autumn, are all about him: the towering summits, wild and… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning” — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“You're a romanticist. What do you think a man is, a papaya? To digest your dinner? In pill form?” — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles,… — 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 marked every… — 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 certain that… — 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 is embarrassed… — 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, on the… — 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 express it.… — 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 of the… — 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 picture, no… — 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: but the… — 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 growth is… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
