Uplifting Quotes - Page 29

• The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part.

  Charles Sangster

  Memorial Day, Hero, Play

  Charles Sangster, “Brock”

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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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• Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

  Vera Rubin

  Science, Demand, Most Inspiring

  "Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters". Book by Vera Rubin, 1997.

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• The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.

  Nelson Mandela

  Song, Jobs, Giving

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Nov 22, 2014

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• The questions you ask consistently will create either enervation or enjoyment, indignation or inspiration, misery or magic. Ask the questions that will uplift your spirit and push you along the path of human excellence

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Creating, Perfection

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Aug 11, 2015

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• Food served is always more than just food served. That is to say, it is more than just fuel for the body. Depending upon who has prepared the food and who has served it and with what spirit, it can uplift the - and around the world, in every culture, food is used to flirt, to be coy, a raise in the employment or to search for employment. It can bring warring factions together.

  Maya Angelou

  Flirting, Together, Culture

  "'The Welcome Table': Recipes from Maya Angelou". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. October 26, 2005.

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• So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.

  Nora Ephron

  Hair, Dry, Week

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• If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.

  KRS-One

  Hip Hop, Mind, Hips

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• Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of
  any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Philosophy, Men, Law

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• Uplifting traditions . . . that promote love for Deity and unity in families and among people are especially important.

  Donald L. Hallstrom

  Love, People, Unity

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• The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Labour Movement, Essence, Organized Labor

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• To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Heart, Goal

  Henrik Ibsen (1983*). “Seven plays”

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