Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains!
Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been hindered from ever growing to maturity. It "gives" us nothing. But in its world of loneliness it leads us up to the summits with wide vistas - of great insights.
Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality. . . . . To rest in or follow after an inferior potentiality may seem safe, rational, comfortable, easy, but it ends badly, in some futility or in a mere circling down the abyss or in a stagnant morass. Our right and natural road is towards the summits.
Each year, it is necessary to respire, to take breath again, to revive ourselves at the great living sources that forever keep their eternal freshness. Where can we find them if not at the cradle of our race, on the sacred summits from where descend the Indus and the Ganges. . . . ?
In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.
Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
The use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Before climbing the summits, you must first walk in the down valleys!
Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.
Nations touch at their summits.
Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.
