Mountaintop Quotes 

You must rise above The gloomy clouds Covering the mountaintop Otherwise, how will you Ever see the brightness?
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We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.

pierre trudeau

— Speech (13 December 1980), quoted in It's great up north" by Henry Porter in The Observer (20 November 2005)

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The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

george f. kennan

— On trying to understand Soviet policies, as quoted in The Wise Men (1986) by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas

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How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! ... In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents, or piled stone we all dwell in a house of one room the world with the firmament for its roof and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.

john muir

— 18 July 1890, page 321

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For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.

Diane Paulus

— American theater director

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You must rise above The gloomy clouds Covering the mountaintop Otherwise, how will you Ever see the brightness?


— As translated in Lust for Enlightenment : Buddhism and Sex (1990) by John Stevens, p. 117

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