Himalayan Quotes

#1. Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

Radhanath Swami

#2. I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

Edmund Hillary

#3. This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.

Stanislav Grof

#4. You are looking beautiful' Dhiren said. Vasundhra looked fresh like a morning flower in a casually draped Lavender chanderi sari. Her long, wet hair left open, just a pin holding them back from falling on her lovely face. 'A true Himalayan flower' Dhiren had thought.

Joyita Nag Shankar

#5. Some of these types, like the Persians and Ottoman Turks, are largely white; others, like the southern Indians and Yemenite Arabs, are largely black; while still others, like the Himalayan and Central Asian peoples, have much yellow blood.

T. Lothrop Stoddard

#6. In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. Great salt choices include Celtic Sea Salt, Himalayan Sea Salt, and Real Salt.

Lauren Geertsen

#8. I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.

Wojciech Kurtyka

#9. I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.

Natalie Dormer

#10. If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. My life is filled with buckets of tears; thousands of people shouting in my ears; the humming and chirping of hundreds of Himalayan birds, which are irresistible to hear.

Santosh Kalwar

#12. Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me.

Greg Child

#13. I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

Edmund Hillary

#14. And on the subject of naming animals, can I just say how happy I was to discover that the word yeti, literally translated, apparently means "that thing over there."
("Quick, brave Himalayan Guide - what's that thing over there?"
"Yeti."
"I see.")

Neil Gaiman

#15. It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

Will Durant

#16. Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#18. Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

Armand Hammer

#19. Once you are enlightened, you can do whatever you want without fear or sorrow. You can go snowboarding, get married, stay single, be rich and famous, or live unknown in a high Himalayan cave. It is up to you.

Frederick Lenz

#20. I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.

Gene Hackman

#21. Har-ki-doon was situated on the northeast end of the Tons River Valley in Uttaranchal, India. A stunning piece of highland at the confluence of a trio of glaciers, it displayed in every direction the magnificence of the Himalayan Mountains -

Falguni Kothari

#22. Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Karl Popper

#23. I applaud my mother now for getting me through that time and making me believe in myself.

Leah Remini

#24. There are times when visible poverty has its advantages.

Heinrich Harrer

#25. Kindness toward the voiceless or the vulnerable, like animals and children, usually denoted good character in a person.

Jeaniene Frost

#26. I come alive at night. I'm such a night owl.

Mpho Koaho

#27. And what it all comes down to is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet.

Alanis Morissette

#28. I look at everything in an artistic way.

Tony Curtis

#29. What was wrong with these angels tonight? Did they eat bad manna or something?

Ashlan Thomas

#30. When you choose a Guru you become a follower. When your Guru chooses you, you become a disciple

Guruji Naushir

#31. Who owns the assets of our Nation? Increasingly, foreign interests own our assets, and we owe them money. No wonder people think our country is headed in the wrong direction. It is.

Marcy Kaptur

#32. You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.

Sarah Addison Allen

#33. The art school party in Liverpool, in a flat in the students' accomdation, was the first all night party I ever went to ... I puked up next morning. Cynthia was there, and I remember saying drunkenly to her 'I wish I had a nice girl like you'

George Harrison

#34. Manny Pacquiao I'm calling you out let's fight May 5th and give the world what they want to see. My Jail Sentence was pushed back because the date was locked in. Step up Punk.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#35. The answer will only arrive after we stop looking for it.

Jonah Lehrer

#36. I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

Juliet Stevenson

#37. If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

Alan Bennett