Ascend Quotes

It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.

There are many paths up the Mountain, but the view of the moon from the top is the same.

Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.

Fly, on your way, like an eagle / Fly as high as the Sun.

To jump from the indie ranks to play with the big dogs, there's a gate you have to pass through.

We ascend the hill-tops of philosophy, not to gaze up at the ever-visible heavens, but to embrace in one grand view the human world beneath us.

Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.

Have a seat, while I take to the sky.

Tell them to fly.

You have to stay one level above everyone else.

Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.