Royal Robbins
Climber, Author
"A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song"
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Ascent
41 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Robert Frost
Poet
"In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated."
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery."
Dante Alighieri
Poet, Philosopher
"This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs."
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"No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides."
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"This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level."
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"In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent."
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"We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures."
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"The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy."
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"Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light."
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