Quotes About Ascent

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.

Soaring is in stages, it progresses as you engage in the very art.

When you are down, the only place to go is up. -Pontius Joseph

A seed doesn't stay beneath the soil, too afraid to grow. It journeys upwards boldly, for that is all it knows.

That is why we climb. We climb to reach safety. We climb to reach hope.

It is time to climb the mountains of our mind

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.

Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you can climb it. That's what you seek as a climber. You want to find something that looks absurd and figure out how to do it.

If I'm just trying to get to different levels... and it takes levels to get to levels, and I just have to do what I have to do to keep on climbing the charts and getting where I need to be.

If you're playing the clubs, you're either on your way up or your way down.

Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing - and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is like death through freezing - a pleasant one.

Now the only way out is straight up to Heaven.

Above all else, do not fear to climb the victory tower.

The ladder is much higher than the climber, who remains committed to the lower rungs. It's one thing to tap into a higher level; quite another to actually live there! And the same thing can happen with spiritual experiences. People can temporarily access some very high rungs in the ladder or circle of awareness, but they refuse to actually live from those levels—they won't actually climb up there. Their center of gravity remains quite low, even debased

Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.