Quotes About Elevation

Men have become the tools of their tools. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With

Non conosco nulla di più incoraggiante dell'incontestabile capacità dell'uomo di elevare la propria vita con uno sforzo cosciente.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated.

He teaches how to void excrement and urine and the like, elevating what is mean, and does not falsely excuse himself by calling these things trifles.

Und wirklich, je mehr er sich zu erniedrigen schien, desto mehr schien er erhöht zu werden.

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind.

You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud - a missile that should never have reached you - and down you drop to the ground.

Qué placer infinito debe ser perderse en Él, y, al ser, por así decirlo, tragado en la imponente sensación de su bondad, ofrecernos como sacrificio vivo, siempre ascendiendo hacia Él en llamas de amor!

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Resolve, and thou art free. But breathe the air Of mountains, and their unapproachable summits Will lift thee to the level of themselves.

And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.

It sometimes ends in uncommon elevation, indeed; but only at the gallows. And besides, when a man is elevated in that odd fashion, he has no proper foundation for his superior altitude. Hence, I conclude, that in boasting himself to be high lifted above a whaleman, in that assertion the pirate has no solid basis to stand on.

The word 'yoga' means union. It's like everything in yoga yokes or unites you to something higher, the highest part of yourself.

You are limitless! Accept this truth and soar to infinity.

You are my love, you are my light, you are my blue sky, when I am vanishing in you only then I can fly.

Hope is dancing in the skyInviting you to have a dance.

Climb greater heights to obtain a new perspective.

God has privileged us in Christ Jesus to live above the ordinary human plane of life. Those who want to be ordinary and live on a lower plane can do so, but as for me, I will not.

I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust that may not be bartered or sold; still less may it be stolen or taken by force.

Before you can give anyone a hand up, first you must get yourself up there to do so ...

I've always wanted to live really high up, and this is the only flat in the building with a balcony, so I feel quite smug up here.

I felt somehow happy to be so high above the world - a childish feeling, I grant, but we can't help becoming children as we leave social conventions behind and come nearer to nature. All life's experience is shed from us and the soul becomes anew what it once was and will surely be again