Uplifting famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.
-- A. C. Benson -
I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
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 -
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
-- Adam Braun -
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 -
People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts.
-- Alan Cohen -
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 -
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 -
Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.
-- Alan Cohen -
A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.
-- Albert Einstein -
An inspired and inspiring guide to living with optimism in a world that is increasingly jaded and pessimistic. Uplifting, rousing, and challenging us to dream the world into being in a positive and creative manner.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
-- Alexander the Great -
Alternative healing does not always offer a quick fix of a symptom, but it does offer a permanent healing that resonates beyond physical well-being. It creates a total uplift in attitude, enhanced spiritual awareness, and so much more that will change the way you appreciate life everyday. Embracing alternative healing by focusing on the cause and trusting the process as it unfolds will be a journey that can be trying or difficult at times, but it will always be extremely rewarding.
-- Alice McCall -
Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
-- Alice Walker -
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 -
It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet.
-- Ann Druyan -
Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development - begun now and ending never. And a life made true cannot confine itself - it must reach out and twine around every pulsing interest within reach of its uplifting tendrils.
-- Anna Julia Cooper -
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
-- Anne Lamott -
Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night. Seeing two guys who'd just as soon cut each other's throats in their off hours moving in unison with grace and ease can be as uplifting as any chemical stimulant or organized religion.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.
-- Anthony Burgess -
I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.
-- Anton Corbijn -
Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.
-- Aretha Franklin -
As a blogger, Chez Pazienza is filled with outrage, passion and insight -- delivered with a distinctive point of view, a wicked sense of humor, and a two-fisted style of prose. In Dead Star Twilight, he turns all these on himself -- and produces a fierce, funny, disturbing, but ultimately uplifting memoir. This is the book A Million Little Pieces dreamed of being.
-- Arianna Huffington -
And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!
-- Audrey Hepburn -
No matter what difficulty you are facing, it is coming from Divine Light to bring you to a higher place within. Write down every conceivable reason that this situation can contribute towards your growth. Write down every way this experience can possibly set the stage for serving to uplift others. When you are complete, and have come to the other side of this experience, you will then know 'why' it happened.
-- Barbara Rose -
I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
-- Ben Kingsley -
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
-- Betty Friedan -
I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.
-- Bill Cosby -
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
-- Booker T. Washington -
To remain confident and positive, think about your goals all the time.
-- Brian Tracy -
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
-- Byron Katie -
If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.
-- C.E. Murphy -
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
-- Carl Jung -
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
-- Carl Jung -
... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.
-- Carolyn Wells -
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
-- Carter G. Woodson -
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 -
Ever since I could remember anything, flowers have been like dear friends to me, comforters, inspirers, powers to uplift and to cheer.
-- Celia Thaxter -
We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which at successive periods pour forth volcanic matter from open orifices, are identical.
-- Charles Darwin -
Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.
-- Charles Saatchi -
The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.
-- Chris Martin -
I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather uplifting, actually, since I find the sort of blind optimism and empty laughter of a great deal of "contemporary culture" to be more depressing than something that admits to a potential for disappointment and a gnawing sense of existential mockery.
-- Chris Ware -
Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.
-- Christopher Reeve -
Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.
-- Chuck D -
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 -
By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost delirious sense of simplicity. In this new simplicity you soon find that you have become, in a new and surer sense, and integral part of the simple, complex world you are walking through. And then you are really walking.
-- Colin Fletcher -
The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
-- Colin Powell -
Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.
-- Colin Powell -
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
-- Dada Vaswani -
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
-- Dalai Lama -
With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection.
-- Damian Pettigrew -
I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
-- Damien Hirst -
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 -
Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.
-- Danielle Fotopoulos -
Parents...rigidly monitor the selection of television programs...and other forms of entertainment for your family. Foster in your homes a love of knowledge through uplifting literature; wholesome books; selective movies; classical and exemplary popular music; entertainment that uplifts and edifies the spirit and mind.
-- David B. Haight -
To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory.
-- David Cottrell -
One makes a gift of one's life and endeavors by sanctifying it with love, and devotion and selfless service. When seeking to uplift others, we are uplifted in the process. Every kind thought or smile therefore benefits oneself as well as all the world.
-- David Hawkins -
So let me put it thus: Hold on to your principles of morality and ethics, use your willpower to the limit, pay great heed to every noble, uplifting desire that is in you; but realize that these things alone are not enough, that they will never bring you to the desired place. We have to realize that all our best is totally inadequate, that a spiritual battle must be fought in a spiritual manner.
-- David Lloyd-Jones -
Whatever the source of the leader's ideas, he cannot inspire his people unless he expresses vivid goals which in some sense they want. Of course, the more closely he meets their needs, the less "persuasive" he has to be, but in no case does it make sense to speak as if his role is force submission. Rather it is to strengthen and uplift, to make people feel that they are the origins, not the pawns, of the socio-political system.
-- David McClelland -
You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
-- Deepak Chopra -
See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Where nature goes to create stars, galaxies, quarks and leptons, you and I also go to create ourselves.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Robert Gass and 'On Wings of Song' bring about magical transformation and inspire people with extraordinary, uplifting, and spiritual music.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
-- Desiderius Erasmus -
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
-- Diane Arbus -
I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
-- Dolly Parton -
Uplifting traditions . . . that promote love for Deity and unity in families and among people are especially important.
-- Donald L. Hallstrom -
When dealing with a difficult person, all that matters from a spiritual standpoint is how you react and treat the person. It's not about getting the other person to change or agree with you. Your spiritual growth is all about the way that YOU deal with the relationship, the person, and the situation. Even if the situation would justify you acting harshly, resist this temptation. Ask for heaven to purify and uplift your thoughts and feelings so that everything you do and say is aligned with Divine Love. This is the path and purpose of the lightworker. This is why you are here.
-- Doreen Virtue -
Forgiveness is the key to breaking the cycle of karma and reincarnation. Forgiveness doesn't mean: "What you did was okay." It simply means, "I'm no longer willing to carry the heavy toxic burdens of anger, resentment, and victimhood in my soul." You can work on healing, uplifting, and changing situations from a place of forgiveness, instead of from a place of resentment. Forgive yourself and everyone, and you are free!
-- Doreen Virtue -
Today, recall a favorite memory, which serves as a gateway to uplifting feelings and thoughts.
-- Doreen Virtue -
You can work on healing, uplifting, and changing situations from a place of forgiveness, instead of from a place of resentment. Forgive yourself and everyone, and you are free!
-- Doreen Virtue -
Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.
-- Doug E. Fresh -
There's nothing more special than talking in your community, and using your celebrity to uplift people and help them.
-- Doug E. Fresh -
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
-- Douglas Adams -
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 -
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...
-- e. e. cummings -
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
-- Earl Nightingale -
Daisies infinite Uplift in praise their little growing hands, O'er every hill that under heaven expands.
-- Ebenezer Elliott -
Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
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 -
When one door closes another opens. Expect that new door to reveal even greater wonders and glories and surprises. Feel yourself grow with every experience. And look for the reason for it.
-- Eileen Caddy -
True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.
-- Emily Giffin -
Recognize success with thanksgiving and build more success on that.
-- Emmet Fox -
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
-- Epictetus -
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
-- Epictetus -
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
-- Epictetus -
As a collector, you will discover that surrounding yourself with art can enrich not only your visual experiences, but instill a sense of vitality to your life and uplift your soul.
-- Ernest West Basden -
Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.
-- Federico Fellini -
Ruth's writing is so joyful, funny and uplifting; it's always a real treat of a read.
-- Fiona Walker -
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
-- Francoise Sagan -
If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard- let him worry about cutting it.
-- Fred Allen -
If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
-- Fred Rogers -
Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
-- Frederick Douglass
