Elevating Life Quotes

#1. In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

Elizabeth Bowen

#2. In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.

Caleb Deschanel

#3. They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#4. No man's an island. Not even the ones that think they are. Especially not them.

Mark Lawrence

#5. The past can't touch you or call you back; you are going far away from it with gratitude and wisdom to learn from the future.

Debasish Mridha

#6. It's not my job to look beautiful. It's my job to look interesting.

Martha Graham

#7. It wasn't only his city that was healing, Raphael thought, his eyes catching the refracted light that betrayed Aodhan's presence in the sky; his people were, too. And it had all begun with a single, vulnerable mortal who did not accept that to be an archangel was to be always right.

Nalini Singh

#8. If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.

James Herriot

#9. Do you have anything to pick a lock?" She asked desperately.
"Always." I slid one of the three bobby-pins I always kept with me off of my waistband, tossing it to her.

Embee

#10. My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of one's personal life.

Ginger Rogers

#11. In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#12. People cannot be molded like clay.

Louisa May Alcott

#13. So now Stephen must actually learn at first hand hwo straight can run the path of true love, in direct contradiction to the time-honoured proverb. Must realize more clearly than ever, that love is only permissible to those who are cut in every respect to life's pattern.

Radclyffe Hall

#14. It's been a grand, elevating, life-confirming experience these last two years.

Diana Nyad

#15. Life's choices are wild and free, but sustaining and elevating, or destructive and debilitating. It's up to us to choose.

Mark Donnelly

#16. If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.

Martin Parr

#17. I would speculate that a critical mass of the population has to internalize a middle class outlook first. International aid experience has demonstrated many times that just building railroads doesn't get you there. You need people ready to sue them.

Charles R. Morris

#18. Lord, help me to appreciate this woman/man without elevating her/him above you in my heart. Help me to remember that nobody can ever take your place in my life. You are my strength, my hope, my joy, and my ultimate reward. Bring me back to reality, God. Give me an undivided heart.

Joshua Harris

#19. Defeatist thoughts handicap persons from elevating their mechanistic life to superior states. The majority of persons consider themselves defeated even before beginning the struggle or the Gnostic esoteric work.

Samael Aun Weor

#20. The folkish philosophy of life must succeed in bringing about that nobler age in which men no longer are concerned with breeding dogs, horses, and cats, but in elevating man himself.

Adolf Hitler

#21. Always believe in yourself because you never know,
your time could be now.

Charmaine Theron

#22. [T]here are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating.

Florida Scott-Maxwell