Uplifting Quotes - Page 28

• From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Distance, Rushing, Rocks

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• I used to be surprised and even depressed when I met someone I had admired and discovered him or her to be a jerk or, perhaps worse, rather common. Now I half expect this reaction and even find it a little reassuring, maybe even uplifting. Isn't it amazing that somebody like that could produce such and such.

  John Allen Paulos

  Science, Half, Littles

  John Allen Paulos (2013). “A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.

  Christina Stead

  Character, Order, Political

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• It's not that people like sad movies that make us feel like, "Oh, my god, what a bummer." We like emotionally moving experiences, where you feel like a slightly different person and you see the world a little different, after you finish. It lets you see your own life, in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good. And even though there might be sad content making this happen, the feeling that you're left with is one that is quite good, quite hopeful, clarifying and uplifting.

  Gayle Forman

  Moving, People, Hopeful

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• The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

  Nelson Mandela

  Stories, African Music, Curious

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• The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts--not to give it joy, but to give it a grand and somewhat gaudy sense of virtue. The essay is a weapon against the degenerate tendencies of the age. The novel, properly conceived, is a means of uplifting the spirit; its aim is to inspire, not merely to satisfy the low curiosity of man in man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mean, Men, Giving

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• All that occurs within the walls of the temple is uplifting and enobling.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Wall, Temples

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• I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant -- to Radiate Life!

  Elbert Hubbard

  People, Giving, Advice

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• People know Tyler Perry, and there are standards they've come to expect from him. His brand is uplifting, and it's something a lot of inner-city African-Americans can relate to.

  Michael Jai White

  Cities, People, African American

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• Love for one's motherland is one of the most powerful and uplifting feelings. It manifested itself in full in the brotherly support to the people of Crimea and Sevastopol, when they resolutely decided to return home, this event will remain a very important epoch in domestic history forever.

  Vladimir Putin

  Love, Powerful, Home

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• Mechanic slaves
  With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall
  Uplift us to the view.

  William Shakespeare

  Views, Hammers, Slavery

  William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.260, Cambridge University Press

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• On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!

  Thomas William Parsons

  Memorial Day, Rain, Fall

  Thomas William Parsons (1866). “The magnolia [verse].”, p.29

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• Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Memorial Day, Flower, Hero

  Silas Weir Mitchell (1896). “The Collected Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”

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• Their silent wounds have speech
  More eloquent than men;
  Their tones can deeper reach
  Than human voice or pen.

  William Robert Woodman

  Thank You, Memorial Day, Men

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• Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Memorial Day, Warrior, Men

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• Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they evolved with it, as the slower climate changes and uplift produced more grass and less forest.

  William H. Calvin

  Moving, Two, Years

  William H. Calvin (2010). “A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change”, p.90, William H. Calvin

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• I realized after reading the fourth chapter of St. John's Gospel, that Christ was truly the Divine Saviour he claimed to be, and no one but He could transform and uplift the downtrodden women of India. ... Thus my heart was drawn to the religion of Christ.

  Pandita Ramabai

  Reading, Heart, India

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• One's own self or material goods, which has more worth?
  Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil?
  He who loves most, spends most,
  He who hoards much loses much

  Laozi

  Loss, Self, Evil

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• Awareness is our true self; it's what we are. So we don't have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments. We're either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we're doing something else.

  Joko Beck

  Block, Self, Trying

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• As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.

  Alan Cohen

  Dream, Morning, Giving

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• The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster than good leads to truth. Ultimately truth is good, but you have to live it from the inside out.

  Alan Cohen

  Real, Important, Authenticity

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• My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Opera, Profession

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Tales, Garments, Everlasting

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• Where nature goes to create stars, galaxies, quarks and leptons, you and I also go to create ourselves.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stars, Quarks, Galaxy

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

  Michael Stipe

  Music, Records, Sometimes

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