Quotes About Elevation

And like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being slowly lifted towards the silent peaks of memory.

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime, and elevation of mind is produced by the contemplation of greatness of any kind, whether of matter, space, power, beauty or virtue.

He lay on his back like a town suspended from a steeple. He

Lend me your wings, bird. I'll spread them and fly on the thermals.

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

Refuse to fight small battles with petty people. You life is bigger and better than that.

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

We weep in front of the dead and we aspire towards saving humanity from destruction, but it is not the salvation from dangers, it is the elevation that is the destiny of everyone of us which should stand before our mind's eye. It is not death, but the lost paradise that should afflict us.

Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains.

For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people's revolution with but one aim in view - the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations.

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

praise is a higher dimension of faith.

In the new century science will defeat famine, boredom, and the plague, but . . . vital knowledge will become so elevated that nobody will know how anything works. . . . the good news is that everybody will be empowered; the bad news is nobody will understand why.

She fell upward into brilliance, where all suffering was released.

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

This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well.

Man who stands on toilet, gets high on pot!

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

Too low they build who build below the skies.

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.