Quotes of: Highest-mountain Keyword

When you get older, you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.

The Mountain Story

I wondered who would teach me, or if a boy could learn on his won, what it means to be a man.

The Mountain Story

He wasn't a great man, but he had a great life.

Light in the Mountains -- A Hoosier Quaker Finds Communal Enlightenment in Nepal

I would have been glad if it had been the Lord's will to let one of my children live.

Orlean Puckett: The Life of a Mountain Midwife

When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.

The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk

Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.

World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.

World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird

I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout.

Samantha Stosur

It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return.

Alex Lowe

Earth, mountains, rivers, hidden in this nothingness. In this nothingness, earth, mountains, rivers revealed. Spring flowers, winter snows. There's no being or non-being, nor denial itself.

Love

As a working definition of art, I lean toward Tolstoy's: "Art is a human activity having for it's purpose the transmission to other of the highest and best feelings to which mankind has risen." It seems to me that, regarding agrarian art, the farther...

The Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse

One night with an ugly woman and one day in the mountains both are like an eternity.

Turkish

The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom that philosophy etymologically is is a desire for the highest or divine causes. Philosophy culminates in theology...

Happiness and Contemplation

Over time, this unspoken attration continued to blossom, refusing to dwindle or fade, though they had little opportunity to foster or nourish it. Slowly and patiently, Robert's sheer persistence in the chase had revealed his heart, and Charlotte came...

The Highest Stakes

We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.

My Utmost for His Highest: Traditional Updated Edition

I spent my summers at my grandparents’ cabin in Estes Park, literally next door to Rocky Mountain National Park. We had a view of Longs Peak across the valley and the giant rock beaver who, my granddad told me, was forever climbing toward the summi...

The Guide to Colorado Mammals

WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don’t believe that. There’s a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It’s what separates us from roaches

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World

Los Angeles is a very magical place when you take the entertainment industry out of it. You have beautiful beaches and amazing mountains here. I'm a big rock climber. I head out into the mountains whenever I have free time. It's amazing.

Alex Pettyfer

In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over.

Same Sun Here

Mother is fading for him, her face receding into shadows, her memory diminishing with each passing day, leaking like sand from a fist.

And the Mountains Echoed

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

And the Mountains Echoed