Quotes About Ascent

Bach: a scale of tears upon which our desires for God ascend.

We'd never know how high we are, till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the sky.

We never know how high we areTill we are called to riseAnd then, if we are true to planOur statures touch the skies.

The higher thy flight the less canst thou see the abysses. There are none in heaven.

Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases

There is a growing recognition about China as a power in the ascent, and there is a question out there about what China will do with their new ascension.

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination.

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.

Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.

but since every created being is ultimately an emanation of God, partaking of His Essence in a measure diminishing with distance, the soul will always strive upward, to its source.

My whole life, I prepared to come down in order to save the world above.. Now I have to ascend to save the world below..

No one is born on Mt. Cleverest. We all have to travel up there!

Tweeds, he soon found, are not in warm weather the ideal clothes for mountain climbing, for that was what his progress soon became. The track grew almost precipitous and he was still further hindered by the loose surface and his package of food and wine. He had been climbing for half an hour when he stopped, ate his lunch, drank his wine and smoked a pipe. Some forty minutes later, much refreshed and free of encumbrance, he continued the ascent in better style.

Within the fall, we find the ascent. —KABBALISTIC PROVERB

Her thick, black plait of hair was the rope by which a man might climb to heaven.

The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.

I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

Etliche wünschen sich Gewalt Und Aufstieg ohne Aufenhalt Und sehen nicht, daß, wer hoch steigt, Von solcher Höhe fällt gar leicht, Und daß, wer auf der Erde liegt, Vorm Fall sich braucht zu fürchten nicht.

But of course, isn't it always the case that the higher you fly, the farther you fall? And I would indeed fall, farther than I could have possibly imagined.

droppedand fallingfrom suchheightsfor solongthatmaybeI will haveenough timeto learnflying

am not ready, nor worthy, I am climbing toward you.