Quotes About Elevation

It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.

I expect the audience to come up to my level.

Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.

Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.

Your own nature is pure, spotless, and pristine. Through association we drag ourselves down or we can raise ourselves up.

Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.

A tree house, to me, is the most royal palace in the world

Clouds are just nature's stepping stones to the heavens.

Mountain is mountain.

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

Water and grace flow to persons and places that are lower.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.

The view from above is always beautiful. Strive to go there, but never forget to be kind.

You can elevate yourself to a level of higher consciousness simply by changing your thoughts, perceptions, and feelings.

Be tuned with song of your life, and that song must be beyond the reality

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

But he who feels too much, He soars in angels' tears of joy...

Compliments are the helium that fills everyone's balloon; they elevate the person receiving them so he or she can fly over life's troubles and land safely on the other side.