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Quotes About Elevation

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: 'To rise above little things'.
~ John Burroughs
Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
~ Aldous Huxley
Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.
~ Rumi
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
~ Henry David Thoreau
Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
~ Maya Angelou
Let's fall, or rather rise, in Love.
~ Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
Excellent people are those, who choose to separate themselves from mediocrity.
~ Mark F. LaMoure
The elevator can take you up to greater heights ONLY IF you take positive action by pressing the button. Greatness in life is all about the right choices you make.
~ Olawale Daniel
To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired, and that's fun.
~ John Legend
The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.
~ Barry Lopez
I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.
~ Mary J. Blige
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
~ Matthew Simpson
He will be the cause whereby many will rise. Long ago Seneca said that what people needed above all was a hand let down to lift them up. It is the hand of Jesus which lifts us out of the old life and into the new, out of the sin into the goodness, out of the shame into the glory.
~ William Barclay
It's a pretty good rule to remember that every time we come into contact with another person, even though just walking a block, our job is to lead him to a higher plane than that one on which we found him.
~ William H. Danforth
I want to rise so high that when I shit I won't miss anybody.
~ William H. Gass
Communion is depth. Singleness is height. Communion giveth warmth, singleness giveth us light.42
~ David H. Rosen
The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.
~ David Hume
Another woman claimed the Hydrolator chambers at EPCOT Center's Living Seas pavilion descended so fast, they damaged her eardrums. Disney merely demonstrated that the pseudo-elevators only give the illusion of descending and actually let guests off at the same elevation as when they entered.
~ David Koenig
But there are times — my favorite climbs — when it doesn't feel as if I'm climbing. Instead, the cliff or tree or wall seems to be lifting me, higher and higher.
~ David Kudler
The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation; the great peaks of honour we had forgotten - duty and patriotism, clad in glittering white; the great pinnacle of sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to heaven.
~ David Lloyd George
Humility and purity are the wings which carry us to God and make us almost divine.
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.
~ Al-Ghazali
For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony.
~ Jean Sibelius
Whenever God restores something, He restores it to a place greater than it was before.
~ Bill Johnson