Uplifting Quotes - Page 19

• I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.

  William Howard Taft

  Order, Progress, Moral

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Robert Gass and 'On Wings of Song' bring about magical transformation and inspire people with extraordinary, uplifting, and spiritual music.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Song, Wings

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• Miss America gets a lot of flak, but the reality is that it is uplifting and aspirational - 50% percent of my points were based on talent.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Reality, America, Missing

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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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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• It's just all love. That's what music is. That's why music is created. To make people feel good, to uplift people. That's what musicians are for: to give everyone an escape, to let everyone feel good and take people out of everyday problems, so that they can hear music and sing words that are hopefully relatable.

  Bruno Mars

  Everyday Problems, People, Giving

  Source: www.cityweekend.com.cn

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• Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired

  Richard Kemp

  Life, Inspiration, Uninspired

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• Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Nature, Stars, Opportunity

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.78

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• If farmers become weak the country loses self-reliance but if they are strong, freedom also becomes strong. If we do not maintain our progress in agriculture, poverty cannot be eliminated from India.But our biggest poverty alleviation programme is to improve the living standard of our farmers. The thrust of our poverty alleviation programmes is on the uplift of the farmers.

  Rajiv Gandhi

  Country, Strong, Self

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• We almost need to cultivate - I hate to sound New Age-y - but to cultivate a positive bias, and really work to focus on those things and notice those things that are wonderful and uplifting.

  Moby

  Hate, Focus, Age

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When people say, 'Religion is all right for some, but I am not religious, and it means nothing to me,' is it because they have not experienced the uplift that comes from sacrificing for and serving their fellowmen?

  John H. Vandenberg

  Religious, Mean, Sacrifice

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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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• If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Mean, Emotional

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• And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift and to abase.

  William Raspberry

  Reality, May, Matter

  "Radioactivity Experiment and the Human Aftermath Wins a Pulitzer", www.nytimes.com. April 13, 1994.

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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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• If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.

  James M. Kouzes

  Inspirational, Success, Suffering

  James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (2008). “A Leader's Legacy”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

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• To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory.

  David Cottrell

  Inspirational, Success, Responsibility

  David Cottrell, Eric Lee Harvey (2004). “Leadership Courage: Leadership Strategies for Individual and Organizational Success”, p.17, The Walk The Talk Company

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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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• We have tried everything to get rid of suffering. We have gone everywhere to get rid of suffering. We have bought everything to get rid of it. We have ingested everything to get rid of it. Finally, when one has tried enought, there arises the possibility of spiritual maturity with the willingness to stop the futile attempt to get rid of it and, instead, to actually experience suffering. In that momentous instant, there is the realization of that which is beyond suffering, of that which is untouched by suffering. There is the realization of who one truly is.

  Gangaji

  Spiritual, Maturity, Suffering

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• Playing Lissa was the most thrilling, terrifying, uplifting, fulfilling, surprising, and experience of my life.

  Lucy Fry

  Surprising, Fulfilling, Thrilling

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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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• Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life.

  Stefan Zweig

  Heart, Ambition, Fate

  "Stellar Moments in Human History". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1953.

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