Uplifting Quotes - Page 18

• We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.

  Marcus Garvey

  Justice, Diversity, Church

  1922 Speech to the Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, NewYork, 25 Nov.

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• Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength. Industry and determination can do anything that genius and advantage can do and many things that they cannot.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

  Mark Hopkins

  Good Christian, Christianity, Globes

  Mark Hopkins (1886). “A Discourse Delivered at Williamstown, June 29, 1886: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Election as President of Williams College”

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• With people increasingly faced with turmoil, uncertainty and crisis,
  I wanted to create music that uplifts the listener and offers a sense of hope to prevail.

  Clifton Anderson

  People, Turmoil, Crisis

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• The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

  Andre Rieu

  Giving, Sides, Audience

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It was as if we were at the heart of a maze. We were overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks ahead. Mary had given us a bottle of milk and a spoonful of loose tea, and so, unable to decide what to do, we did what all Irish men and women do: we had tea. Suddenly the sun appeared and not for the first or last time we felt it uplifting us and changing everything. It seemed like a holiday.

  Niall Williams

  Heart, Holiday, Men

  Niall Williams, Christine Breen (1989). “O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare”, Soho PressInc

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• We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become perfect, when there will be no disease, nor death, nor unhappiness, nor wickedness. That is a very good idea, a very good motive power to inspire and uplift the ignorant. But if we think for a moment, we shall find on the very face of it that it cannot be so. How can it be, seeing that good and evil are the obverse and reverse of the same coin? How can you have good without evil at the same time?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• When someone tells you, 'I love you,' and then you feel, 'Oh, I must be worthy after all,' that's an illusion. That's not true. Or someone says, 'I hate you,' and you think, 'Oh, God, I knew it; I'm not very worthy,' that's not true either. Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. When someone says, 'I love you,' he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, 'I hate you,' she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.

  Adyashanti

  Hate, Love You, Reality

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• Well, besides being entertained, I’d like to move them emotionally. I mean I really want to uplift them. I want to look down at the audience, and this is personal experiences now I’m going to tell you. It’s like you look down at the audience and see people smiling, crying, hugging each other. I want them on their way home to feel empowered like they can do anything.

  Yanni

  Moving, Home, Mean

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• Every year at this time, an important phrase marks the season: peace on earth and goodwill towards men. It's so common we sometimes forget about what it really means - that we strive for a world without war, a society where we respect and help our neighbors, a place where we protect and uplift our most in need. This isn't a phrase we should live by for one day or one month. It's a set of values that must bond and motivate us every day.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Mean, Men

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• Hasidism has a tradition that one of man's purposes is to assist God in the work of redemption by "hallowing" the things of creation. By a tremendous heave of his spirit, the devout man frees the divine sparks trapped in the mute things of time; he uplifts the forms and moments of creation, bearing them aloft into that rare air and hallowing fire in which all clays must shatter and burst. Keeping the subsoil world under trees in mind, in intelligence, is the least I can do.

  Annie Dillard

  Men, Fire, Air

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.96, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light.

  Jerzy Grotowski

  Art, Light, Darkness

  Jerzy Grotowski (2012). “Towards a Poor Theatre”, p.256, Routledge

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• My music, it breathes. It's the mysticism of sound. I'm a sound seeker, and I'm enthralled with it, by what it can do to change the molecules and uplift people. They feel something when we play. I can't take authorship for that. I can take that I'm in service.

  Charles Lloyd

  Play, People, Sound

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• Man's rank is his power to uplift.

  George MacDonald

  Men

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.5986, Delphi Classics

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• Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired

  Richard Kemp

  Life, Inspiration, Uninspired

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• Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence . Art is not a brassiere. At least, not in the English sense. But do not forget that brassiere is the French word for life-jacket.

  Julian Barnes

  Art, Self Confidence, Giving

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• The Word of God makes use of poetic imagery when discussing... formless intelligences but... it does not do so for the sake of art, but as a concession to the nature of our own mind. It uses scriptural passages in an uplifting fashion as a way, provided for us from the first, to uplift our mind in a manner suitable to our nature.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Fashion, Art

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• Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.

  Federico Fellini

  Beautiful, Laughter, Despair

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• I love San Francisco, and it offers spectacular scenery of the city, and it adds to the uplifting quality of the movie.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Cities, San Francisco, Quality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age—are so beautifully revealed here, a trenchant reminder that our pasts are alive inside of us. There are psychologists who can write, and writers who can psychologize, but rarely have the two met on the page with such moving, profound results.

  Dani Shapiro

  Memories, Moving, Writing

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• Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is born to happiness in this vale of tears, to a certain amount of the purest joy that earth can giver her children, joy that is tranquil, innocent, uplifting, unfailing.

  Celia Thaxter

  Happiness, Children, Flower

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.5, Applewood Books

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• Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it was, they kept straight on in their immoral way and were sent to jail. For all I know, they may next be sent to Congress.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Book, Dark

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• By turns sad and uplifting, Life in the Valley of Death tells the amazing tale of Alan Rabinowitz's courageous and spirited efforts to protect Burma's (Myanmar's) remaining tigers and establish the Hukawng Valley Reserve. It is hard to imagine a more passionate or exciting account of today's conservation challenges, or a more thoughtful rendering of life, death, and politics in Burma's most remote corners.

  Thant Myint-U

  Thoughtful, Effort, Challenges

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• Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the World, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Pain, Disappointment, Evil

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• Many women have described their experiences of childbirth as being associated with a spiritual uplifting, the power of which they have never previously been aware. To such a woman, childbirth is a monument of joy within her memory. She turns to it in thought to seek again an ecstasy which passed too soon.

  Grantly Dick-Read

  Spiritual, Memories, Pregnancy

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