#mountains

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#climb #either #higher #mountains #never

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#answered #bitter #called #cold #courageously

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. ↗

— Jean Paul

#air #around #beneath #break #gather

China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years. ↗

— Li Peng

#chinese #close #enjoyed #exchanges #friendly

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#find #mountains #only #tops #up

I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington. ↗

— Janet Reno

#back #climb #could #country #explore

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

#fail #heights #mountains #out #recognize

I learn something every time I go into the mountains. ↗

— Michael Kennedy

#every time #go #i #into #learn

It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you don't get when you're on foot. ↗

— Michael Kennedy

#being #dynamic #efficiently #foot #get

I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer. ↗

— Marat Safin

#having #having fun #i #into #life