Inspirational Valleys Quotes & Sayings

Nestled deep within the hills and valleys or our deepest desires, we are already everything we wish to be. Our infinite potential hugging our interior landscape like a hazy mist, in the way that low clouds hug the earth. Patiently waiting for us to paint them onto the brilliant blue skies of our reality. — Jaeda DeWalt

No one can reach the pinnacle of success without crossing the treacherous valleys of failures. — Debasish Mridha

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River. — Daniel Boone

The longest hill must end in a valley. — Henry Beeching

I was born black and female. — Lorraine Hansberry

Where the rivers come, there shall they return. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life. — Dave Dravecky

That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation. — Maya Angelou

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose
something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to
overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if
there were no dark valleys to traverse. — Helen Keller

The dream giver [God] will remove mountains, He'll fill valleys, He'll straighten crocket ways for you to fulfil your dreams. And His timing is the best. — Euginia Herlihy

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. — Dan Rather

God plants the talent and it grows, sustained by a spirit-given strength to endure, even in the midst of darkness. It thrives in the valleys of life and ignores the peaks. It blooms like a flower when cradled by the warmth of the sun. It remains in a hidden stairwell in a concentration camp. It grows, fed in secret, in the heart of every artist. — Kristy Cambron

Look for her not in the valleys below, nor in the temple rooms. For she has gone, gone into the high passes, far beyond this dying moon. — Rebecca Carson

This thing was power from the Outside, and I was a grain of sand to its oncoming tide. But you know what? That grain of sand might be the last remnant of what had once been a mountain, but that which it is, it is. The tide comes and the tide goes. Let it hammer the grain of sand as it may. Let lofty mountains fear the slow, constant assault of the waters. Let the valleys shudder at the pitiless advance of ice. Let continents drown beneath the dark and rising tide. But that grain of sand? It isn't impressed. Let the tide roll in. The sand will still be there when it rolls out again. -Harry Dresden, Cold Days by Jim Butcher — Jim Butcher

Indeed, Gabriel knew it wasn't all just empty green fields of moorland grass for miles around. Tucked within the wide landscapes of these uplands was an unpredictability that a less observant person might never be aware of. There were waterfalls concealed in swaths of wilderness, rocky stream beds ramblings in deep valleys, and ... knotted sheets? — Olivia Parker

Sometimes people feel disappointed when they hear about practicing compassion: "You mean I have to be nice?" It's kind of a letdown. We often overlook compassion, seeing it as merely a pit stop on the way to more advanced practices. We want something more; we don't even know what. But that's just a trick of our mind. One of the greatest teachings is to practice compassion. — Sakyong Mipham

No wonder Mama went away in her head when Clover passed on. And then Papa. I am going to visit my Mama tomorrow and tell her I am sorry for everything I ever did that caused her sorrow or worry, and for ever wishing, during those days, that she would come back. She probably wanted to stay there. It's a wonder she came back at all. If I knew how to make myself go away in my head, I declare I would. — Nancy E. Turner

When you change your NOW story, you instantly change your past story and your future story. — Robert G. Allen

Our faith is built in the dark, in the valleys, and during the back-breaking battles in life. — Dana Arcuri

When you really want love you will
find it waiting for you. — Oscar Wilde

To reach the pinnacle of success, you have to cross the treacherous valleys of failures and discontent. — Debasish Mridha

May the light of God's love lead us always through the valleys. — Amy E. Tobin

Your life is your artwork and you are to paint life as a beautiful struggle. With your brush, paint the colors of joy in vibrant shades of red. Color the sky a baby blue, a color as free as your heart. With rich, earthy tones shade the valleys that run deep into the ground where heaven meets hell. Life is as chaotic as the color black, a blend of all colors, and this makes life a beautiful struggle. Be grateful for the green that makes up the beautiful canvas, for nature has given you everything that you need to be happy. Most of all, don't ever feel the need to fill the entire canvas with paint, for the places left blank are the most honest expressions of who you are. — Forrest Curran

Spread love not hate, so that we can live and die in peace. — AKA

If we listen to and follow the promptings of the Spirit, they will serve as a Liahona, guiding us through the unknown, challenging valleys and mountains that are ahead (see 1 Nephi 16). — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I used to think that life was hills and valleys-you go through a dark time, then to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don't believe that anymore. Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe it is it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times in your life, there is something bad that needs to be worked on. And no matter how bad things are in our lives, there is always something good to thank God for. — Elizabeth Adeniyi

The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety. — James Hogg

Positive thinking can move mountains, fill up valleys and it can make dry bones to become alive again. — Euginia Herlihy

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language. — Jerome Kern

Come slowly over the hills and valleys to touch my soul, feel my heart, and vanish in my joy. — Debasish Mridha

Sometimes you've got to start at the lowest valleys to climb to the highest mountain tops. — Timothy Pina

You are no one and you are everyone.
You are glorious and you are nothing.
You are mountains and valleys.
You are glory and sin.
And even when in the heart of your glory you can't comprehend
how deep his passion for you runs,
Take hold of who you are.
Run before the wind of the destiny He has created for you,
And seek Him in every moment. — James L. Rubart

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot. — Augustus William Hare

We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally good. — Robert M. Pirsig

Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is. — Barbara Johnson

Step into my shoes follow my journey my mountains my valleys my surprise potholes and if you can keep going the way I keep going perhaps you'll understand my choices & strength. — Karen Salmansohn

Go ahead. Enjoy the hills and valleys, days and nights, and all the beauty of life. — Debasish Mridha