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Quotes About Ascend

The thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going.
~ Cheryl Strayed
But the thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going.
~ Cheryl Strayed
By the late 1950s millions of Americans were enjoying the bounties of affluence and the consumer culture, the likes of which they had scarcely imagined before. In the process they were developing larger expectations about life and beginning to challenge things that had seemed set in stone only a few years earlier. Older cultural norms, however, still remained strong until the 1960s, when expectations ascended to new heights and helped to facilitate social unrest on a new and different scale.
~ James T. Patterson
To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.
~ Frederick Soddy
Law 11: "No" simply means begin again at one level higher.
~ Timothy Ferriss
The mind is a golden capstone atop the physical body. The Philosopher's Stone. Through the staircase of the spine, energy ascends and descends, circulating, connecting the heavenly mind to the physical body.
~ Dan Brown
ameliorative. He climbed
~ Dan Simmons
the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes
~ Daniel Keyes
The Learned, who strive to ascend into Heaven by means of learning, appear to Children like dead horses, when repelled by the celestial spheres.
~ William Blake
Angel's trumpet. Beautiful, in'it? Eating these flowers makes your troubles go away. Problem is, too much will kill ye." She laughed. "It got its name because it's the last thing you'll see before ascending into heaven.
~ Christina Baker Kline
As a modern Austrian writer—Sigismund von Radecki—has well said, "It is not art, but rather the archetype towards which art strives to ascend."2
~ Christopher Dawson
Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
As flames do work and wind when they ascend, So did I weave myself into the sense.
~ George Herbert
It is a mystic maxim that the lower in the scale of evolution a being is placed, the more certainly it responds to the planetary rays, and conversely the higher we ascend in the scale of attainment, the more the man conquers and rules his stars, freeing himself from the leading strings of the Divine Hierarchies.
~ Max Heindel
There are seven levels!
~ Paul McCartney
For as nothing can fall to the Earth, but because it has the Nature of the Earth in it; so it is a Truth of the utmost Certainty, that nothing can ascend towards Heaven, or have the least Power to unite with it, but that very Spirit which came down from Heaven, and has the Nature of Heaven in it.
~ William Law
When you climb to the top of the hill and look down you can see everything, just like Jesus on the pinnacle except it's not very tempting.
~ Unknown
When we worship, we ascend, when we ascend we gain revelation from God.
~ Chuck D. Pierce
If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.
~ Honore de Balzac
So fly Im gonna take off when I leap. Bye.
~ Lil Wayne
And he rose, brontosaurus-like, to his place among the treetops.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
What I know about the Bible is this: Those whom God helped to ascend to a higher place were all flawed individuals, except for
~ Tyler Perry
Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.
~ Michelangelo
The camera observed me, but there was nothing in my bag except a pashmina, purse, and Lorazepam. I carried emptiness. Doors opened. Another camera recorded my progress. Doubtless there were thousands of my days repeated thus, interred digitally in limbo. I ascended two steps with nothing to look forward to
~ Peter Carey