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Quotes About Uplifted

Custom is the lord of everything, of mortals and immortals king. High violence it justifies, with hand uplifted plundering.
~ Pindar
Americans like optimism, and 'Once' walks a tightrope: you feel uplifted at the end even if you're crying.
~ John Carney
Besides a burial service is rather lovely. Makes you feel uplifted, the grief is real. It makes you feel awful but it does something to you. I mean, it works it out like perspiration.
~ Agatha Christie
Your sadness is because of the thorn of desire in your heart. If you don`t take notice of it, it will turn into sarcasm, cynicism, frustration, and anger. You need to pull it out and throw it, then you will feel uplifted and happy.
~ Ravi Shankar
How dare they invite us—in our sitting rooms, watching television—to feel uplifted by contemplating an act of ritual murder: the murder of a dependent child by a group of stupid, puffed up, superstitious, ignorant old men? How dare they invite us to find good for ourselves in contemplating an immoral action against someone else?
~ Richard Dawkins
Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I must say, something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits; the simple kindness I had been thanked for, and the simple kindness I had been offered in return, caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Melancholy Shakespearean passages provided him with relief. They offered structured, resonant versions of gloom. They organized sad topics and made them meaningful. Reciting dark writings aloud let him project his depression outward so that it was filtered through the improving lens of poetry. The rhythms and images of verse crystallized his private experience in a manner similar to the way his finest speeches crystallized and uplifted the national experience.
~ David S. Reynolds
These spires above my house are doves, lifted by grace above the earth's eruption.
~ Jay Wright
I don't feel depressed. I feel elated.
~ Richard Dawkins
I have a passion to make a difference in the world. And that difference can be just making the fans at my show leave with a smile on their face and feeling uplifted.
~ Michael Franti
Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.
~ Don Marquis
My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.
~ Anne Bronte
I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.
~ Siobhan Fahey
The air was soft, as it often was in this lovely month, and Eddie inhaled its sweetness. He found himself uplifted as he worked, caught up in something outside himself and his petty wants and needs. The clouds drifted like ice in a tumbler. Through his lens the river seemed made of light, there was the shimmer, and for a moment the world seemed whole to him.
~ Alice Hoffman
It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it.
~ Stefan Zweig
She knew now why she had come up here. It was so that she might feel like this—as if she was upheld far away from things—as if she had left everything behind—almost as if she had fallen awake again. There was no perfume in the air, but all was still and sweet and clear.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
That girl! She was like a touch of destiny. He felt caught up in a wave, in tune with a motion that lifted all his spirits.
~ Frank Herbert
People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.
~ Edward Hall
Let the young soul survey its own life with a view of the following question: 'What have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There was an exciting atmosphere about the place that uplifted her. It was as if she could actually feel the accelerated steady pulse of the town's heart beating in time with her own.
~ Margaret Mitchell
he saw, because the corner of his mouths curled up even higher.
~ Aubrey Rose
One of the most terrifying aspects of publishing stories and books is the realization that they are going to be read, and read by strangers. I had never fully realized this before, although I had of course in my imagination dwelt lovingly upon the thought of the millions and millions of people who were going to be uplifted and enriched and delighted by the stories I wrote.
~ Shirley Jackson
One of the most terrifying aspects of publishing stories and books is the realization that they are going to be read, and read by strangers. I had never fully realized this before, although I had of course in my imagination dwelt lovingly upon the thought of the millions and millions of people who were going to be uplifted
~ Shirley Jackson