#mountain

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it. ↗

— Cicely Tyson

#begin #believe #entire #entire life #having

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity. ↗

— Mark Udall

#creativity #emotionally #fatal #get #helps

I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#i #i can #lot #moon #mountains

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#books #happiness #i #i see #life

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#children #day #god #got #half

Cycling keeps me lean and I need to stay in shape, especially as I still like eating chocolate and ice-cream! I like to go mountain biking too. Running is also good; it's what we were designed to do as humans, so it comes naturally. ↗

— Mark Webber

#biking #chocolate #comes #cycling #designed

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#heart #human #human heart #like #line

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#awe-inspiring #clearly #far #far away #friend

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#about #across #come #finding #i

'Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#after #always #ang #away #blew