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Quotes About Elevation

Quem quer «elevar-se» continuamente deve esperar um dia ter vertigens. O que é a vertigem? O medo de cair? Mas porque temos nós vertigens num miradouro protegido com um parapeito? A vertigem não é o medo de cair, é outra coisa. É a voz do vazio por debaixo de nós que nos atrai e nos enfeitiça, o desejo de queda do qual nos defendemos depois com pavor.
~ Milan Kundera
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
~ Ben Jonson
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens.
~ Bertrand Russell
Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.
~ Darin Strauss
..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
Love makes you wise. Love unites. Pain divides. Hate divides even more. Hate separates and brings us down to a very physical plane. Love elevates us to a plane of spirit.
~ Frederick Lenz
We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Nosotras, las mujeres, tenemos algo de madres que nos hace elevarnos sobre las cosas menos importantes cuando se invoca la maternidad;
~ Bram Stoker
I submit that the true test of progress is not the accumulation of wealth in the hands of a few, but the elevation of a people as a whole.
~ Brian MacArthur
I think music can elevate the human spirit.
~ Candy Darling
I can jump really high, yeah. I'm proud of that. I'll take it.
~ Daveed Diggs
Love doesn't build cages. It builds stairways to the stars.
~ Karen Marie Moning
If we have been given the vocation and grace to die with Christ then the everyday and banal occurrence which we call human death has been elevated to a place among God's mysteries.
~ Karl Rahner
The confession of the church touching Jesus Christ can never be a knowledge such that, with it, the church can elevate itself above the world. It is precisely within the church that people will have to remind themselves that this knowledge is a gift and a miracle which did not arise out of flesh and blood.
~ G C Berkouwer
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
~ G.K. Chesterton
For a while I believe I am flying, not falling.
~ Gargi Bhattacharyya
Like the caterpillar becomes the butterfly, you will become Christ — and be one with all of true Creation.
~ Gary R. Renard
1912, the year of Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee, elevating
~ Brian Hoey
Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.
~ bryan william jennings ii
straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!
~ Herman Melville
you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
~ Pat Paulsen
Rise above yourself.
~ Thomas Leonard
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
~ Xun Kuang