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Quotes About Uplifting

I think that comedy makes everyone feel weightless. The weight of whatever their troubles, or the weight of life, and in that moment, when you're laughing, it's like you're free of earth's gravity.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
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
You cannot reach the stars feet on the ground.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You know what's a great song that will be stuck in your head if I say it? 'Single Ladies,' by Beyonce. Killer song.
~ Duff McKagan
Ultimately, I do my best to not subscribe to things that are unnecessarily negative, harmful, or hurtful to somebody.
~ Angie Martinez
Childrens' laughter is like medicine to sadness.
~ Tyler Perry
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
~ Vachel Lindsay
It's your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down
~ Billie Jean King
I should like to make films that are not lowering to the spirit. A new building can be very harrowing, I should like to give people a chance to whistle.
~ Unknown
Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey," writes activist, teacher, and lay monk Wayne Teasdale in A Monk in the World. "For work to be sacred, it must be connected to our
~ Phil Jackson
nothing is more uplifting in all of life than righteous anger.
~ Philip Roth
They defy gravity, as good books should.
~ David Levithan
It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into the world in mirthful bursts. There wasn't anything fake about it; it was an amusement park of a laugh, and when it appeared, you wanted to jump on board.
~ David Levithan
A pop song that's as substantial as a balloon, but lifts us up the same way when we sing it.
~ David Levithan
Whenever I look at it, it makes me happy. That's the moral of the story. That's it.
~ David Levithan
Soon we are singing at the top of our lungs. A pop song that's as substantial as a balloon, but lifts us in the same way when we sing it.
~ David Levithan
You should take something to cheer you up a little. Just a little. Just enough so that you don't seem to be wandering loose all day in Bagneux cemetery.
~ Yasmina Reza
I fail to see where it would have been more uplifting for them to have been inside a church listening to a man urging them to 'contemplate the sufferings of our Lord,' which is just another way of punishing one's self for nothing. It is very much better for them to climb the rocks in their bare clean feet and meet Him face to face in their search for the eternal in beauty.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I fail to see where it would have been more uplifting for them to have been inside a church listening to a man urging them to "contemplate the sufferings of our Lord," which is just another way of punishing one's self for nothing. It is very much better for them to climb the rocks in their bare clean feet and meet Him face to face in their search for the eternal in beauty.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.
~ Mike Love
I want to make people laugh, but I also want to do things that have a serious impact on people - that affect the way they think about something or help them in some way.
~ Skyler Gisondo
His last recorded words about Franklin were very optimistic and appreciative: "I know he is good and will be good
~ Conrad Black
I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.
~ Corey Feldman
What feeds the soul matters as much as what feeds the body.
~ Corrie Ten Boom