Quotes About Elevation

Estos dos jóvenes juzgaban a la sociedad desde tanta más altura cuanto más abajo se encontraban situados en la escala social, ya que los hombres desconocidos se vengan de lo modesto de su posición con su elevación de miras.

Nuestras ridiculeces son causadas en gran medida por un bello sentimiento, una virtud o unas facultades llevadas al extremo. El orgullo que no se refina con el trato del gran mundo se transforma en rigidez que se apega a simples pequeñeces en vez de crecer en un círculo de sentimientos elevados.

Se mai uitase o dat? la poetul r?pus de pl?ceri, se îmb?tase f?r? s? se sature de iubirea cea nobil?, care unea sim?urile cu inima ?i inima cu sim?urile, ca s? le ridice în înaltul cerului împreun?. Divinizarea aceasta, care face s? fim doi pe p?mânt ca s? sim?im, ?i unul singur în cer ca s? iubim, însemna pentru dânsa iertarea p?catelor.

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

At last it had come, the day when I should become a hog! I tried out my teeth on the bark of trees; I contemplated my snout with delight. There was not remaining the least morsel of divinity. I was capable of raising my soul up to the excessive elevation of that ineffable sensuality.

The things money could buy weren't the reward; the reward was to feel lifted above everyone else,

How else can hopes go but up?

I never folded, I didn't have to hate on anybody, I didn't have to cross anybody or fall out with anyone because I'm not on that vibe. My frequency is on a whole other level.

Why do we cling to bigotry? Because bigotry, plainly, is convenient. It is a near-effortless way to both elevate one's stature and make a pity grab in this culture of victims that we have become.

Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts.

For the first time, we recognized a medium that takes our ordinary, everyday objects like bowls, baskets, and quilts and elevates them to art forms that rival painting and sculpture in their impact. (From the forward to Crafts in America: Celebrating Two Centuries of Artists and Objects.

Except for levees, there are no natural land surfaces in the city that are higher than fifteen feet above sea level. Canal Street meets the river at an elevation of fourteen feet above sea level; Jackson Square, only six blocks downriver, is only ten feet above sea level. The Tulane University area is a mere four feet above sea level, while the intersection of Broad and Washington Streets (originally part of the backswamp, now Mid-City) is two feet below sea level.

If you raise yourself up, people can bring you down; but if God raises you up, no man can bring you down, if you will remain faithful to Him. (Proverbs 25:6-7)

Americans of all kinds believe that it is impossible for an American to become a refugee, although it is possible for refugees to become Americans and in that way be elevated one step closer to heaven.

Let us raise a somewhat loftier strain!

Wafted by a favouring gale As one sometimes is in trances, To a height that few can scale, Save by long and weary dances

Feeling LOW? Go on mountains.

You never know how great a kiss can feel, when you're stopped at the top of a Ferris wheel.

All doctrine is ultimately the death of joy - even when the doctrine is the elevation of the light above the serious, because joy is too varied and elusive ever to confine itself to one or the other.

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.

This is why we must break away towards the High: we dare not keep ourselves set towards the sensuous principle, following the images of sense, or towards the merely vegetative, intent upon the gratifications of eating and procreation; our life must be pointed towards the Intellective, towards the Intellectual-Principle, to- wards God.

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

Every year I elevate. I just feel like it was God's plan because I don't even be trying hard for real. I just be doing me.

In general, I feel like when I've associated with someone, the association has elevated me and perhaps lowered the other person.