Quotes About Elevation

Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot be pictured today by the keenest imagination.

Grazie a lui mi ero avvicinato per la prima volta al grande mistero, ovvero al fatto che, se mai nella nostra esistenza riusciamo ad attingere qualcosa di speciale, qualcosa di più elevato, ciò accade solo al prezzo di una particolare concentrazione interiore, di una paranoia sublime e, nella sua sacralità, affine alla follia.

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

Así que, oh Señor, en todo y por todo engrandeciste a tu pueblo, y le honraste, ni te desdeñaste de asistirlo en todo tiempo y en todo lugar.

Falling and flying are near identical sensations, in all but one final detail.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.

Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life.

Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.

Remove the emotional and physical clutter from your life so you can soar.

You have to get to the next level, or you're gonna get stuck where you are for the rest of your life.

But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Jupiter are aligned with the earth and i'm floating.

a 1,257 ft bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.

We go all the way to the top and take in the view.

Birds are colder than animals that live on the earth, because they are not conceived in such intense and heated desire. Just as birds are lifted up into the air by their feathers and can remain wherever they wish, the soul in the body is elevated by thought and spreads its wings everywhere.

I understood it immediately. With each step up the ladder, the step beneath it disappeared, so that the higher she rose in life, the more vertiginous her position.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

Das Wesentliche an der Existenz des Menschen ist ja, dass er sich über das Tierreich und seine instiktive Anpassung erhoben hat, dass er die Natur transzendiert hat, wenn er sie auch nie ganz verlässt.

The point is that if the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it.

In people like us, the craving is as strong as the craving for food or water, the yearning for touch or light or love. I was looking for something--a diversion, an occupation, an unwavering force--that would elevate me, that would lift me out of the melancholy dissection of my own interior geography that otherwise would have consumed me pitilessly, as it had my father. I wanted to fly above myself-- if only for a few hours--and look down in tranquility upon my life.

It is a disservice to any form to elevate it as the form.

Even the lowest form of humor—maybe especially the lowest, the most basic form—suggests that we were intended to be something higher than ourselves.

Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom.

What if we treat the high-rise like a mountain, or we have gardens in the sky, or waterfalls? I think that's the most challenging thing I want to try in my architecture.