Favorite Quotations ~  Mountains Storm Dog of the Koolaus

"The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Koolau Mountains by Richard Barlett

We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. ~ Li Po

There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base spreads out in manifold foothills into the world of mortals. It is the way by which man can raise himself to the divine and by which the divine can reveal itself to man. ~ Rene Daumal, Mount Analogue

We do not ask the mountain's aid to crack a walnut. ~ Wole Soyinka

There are some moments like walking in the mountains after the rain when you feel it is so wonderful to be human. ~ Shen Wei

Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains. ~ Carter G. Woodson

Live your life each day, as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. ~ Harold B. Melchart

Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. ~ William Blake

When there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. ~ Eric Hoffer

Our way is not soft grass. It's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun. ~ Ruth Westheimer

Mountains run up like walls, with little flat land between, and the people who live there (in West Virginia) like it that way. They have mortal fear, some of them, of country where there are no hills to protect them from the wind. ~ Virgil Carrington Jones

On the mountain, joy and sorrow are close companions. ~ Fritz Marz

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. ~ John Muir

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself. ~ Tibetan Proverb