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Quotes About Elevation

Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.
~ Unknown
Pay no attention to the terrors that visit you in the night. The psyche is at its lowest ebb then, unable to defend itself. The desolation that envelops you feels like truth, but isn't. It's just mental fatigue masquerading as insight.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
The Lord longs to exalt His people as trophies of His work in them.
~ Max Anders
Regardless of where you started, there is always the next level. You need to keep leveling up your skills.
~ Unknown
For the purpose of human health, it appears that it is wise to work and live below 4, 900 feet.
~ Steven Magee, Health Forensics
There are very few actors who elevate a scene through their persona. Like for example, Rajinikanth does it with his style. He doesn't need anything else.
~ Vijay Deverakonda
A footstool is only needed when you need to get higher. Let your enemy lift you.
~ Tyler Perry
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
~ Victor Hugo
We live surrounded by God's pattern but we aren't high enough to see it. You can elevate yourself, of course. That's the whole point of education, of meditation and prayer. The more one lifts oneself up, the more of the pattern he is able to make out, though only an enlightened few have a perspective lofty enough to see the outline whole.
~ Victor J. Banis
The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.
~ Plato
Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
To by held above the earth and be brushed by the wind," she said,"it's like your heart has been kissed by beauty.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
Gareth Bale has been levitated to the status of one of the best players in the world.
~ Unknown
From a Higher Point Everything Looks more Little, but Business we do on the Ground.
~ Jan Jansen
Beyond the wild animals that posed a regular safety concern anywhere in Kenya, it was believed that the high elevation of Kijabe would leave the missionaries susceptible to "Kenya nerves" –a mythical neurological disorder that led to acute anxiety and other psychologically linked ailments. p21
~ Unknown
I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong.
~ Philip K. Dick
And for that moment, my heart is lifting too fast to be scared of falling.
~ David Levithan
The air feels cleaner because when the world is below us, we allow ourselves to breathe fully.
~ David Levithan
I'm always jealous of people who get to be new to New York because they get to be amazed by it... I worry that it's like living at a high elevation. I've gotten used to breathing here and every part of my body is tuned to living here.
~ David Levithan
Velocità ascensionale media – a term coined by the controversial Italian physician and coach Michele Ferrari, meaning average ascent speed in English and used to measure the speed of elevation gain, usually stated in units of metres per hour. It is a parameter used in cycling as
~ Unknown
Even in the face of something like gravity, one can jump at least three or four feet in the air and even though gravity will drag us back to the earth again, it is in the moment we are three or four feet in the air that we experience true freedom.
~ David Wojnarowicz
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.
~ Dean Koontz
Who rises the glass, also rises the price!
~ Honore de Balzac
The common herd of humanity feels an involuntary respect for any person who can rise above it, and is not over-particular as to the means by which they rise.
~ Honore de Balzac