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"When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain."
"If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won't move many mountains"
"Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks."
"It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose."
"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments."
"Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small."
"Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently."
"Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano."
"Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest."
"People need to climb the mountain not simple because it is there But because the soulful divinity needs to be mated with the spirit."
"If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life."
"Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain."
"One who can move mountains start with the little stones."
"Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain."
"We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves."
"Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb."
"And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb."
"I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains."
"There is a Soul within the Soul. Seek it out. There is a Treasure in your mountain. Seek it Out. A mystic in motion, if that's what you are, don't seek out there; seek inside."
"Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river."
