Top 29 Enlivening Quotes
#1. The rain is a necessary prelude to beautiful weather. So even if your heart is in downpour right now it only means it will become exceptionally beautiful in time.
Bisco Hatori
#2. In our witness, we are to shine not our own light but Christ's light. Just as a lamp requires oil, we depend on our fellowship with Christ and the Holy Spirit's enlivening ministry through God's Word in order that Christ's light may shine through us.
Richard D. Phillips
#3. Forget black and white and try on gray. In hair color, wardrobe or life choices, it may feel more enlivening than you imagine.
Gina Greenlee
#4. I'm sure there are people who are content to run errands and report for work on time and wait, with an enlivening eagerness, for the lunch bell. I wish them well. They have, however, never been the subjects of novels, and in all likelihood, will never be.
Michael Cunningham
#5. It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
Umberto Eco
#6. Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#7. The seeds of freedom ... have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by the enlivening dews of God's clemency, till the reapers abolitionists shall shout the harvest home.
Henry McNeal Turner
#8. He finds low-level jealousy to be enlivening, pleasantly astringent.
Maggie Shipstead
#9. Substantial things deaden a man without suffering; love awakens him with enlivening pains.
Kahlil Gibran
#10. What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.
Walter Bagehot
#11. Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.
F. Sionil Jose
#12. The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.
D.T. Suzuki
#13. Every obstacle is a hidden step on the path to promotion.
Sunday Adelaja
#14. When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
Dorothy Day
#15. Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#16. Use your natural powers - of persistence, concentration, and insight - to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems, make art, and think deeply
Susan Cain
#17. Ferris, himself fed up with construction delays and Burnham's pestering, had told Gronau to turn the wheel or tear it off the tower.
Erik Larson
#18. People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.
Philip Roth
#19. The only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.
Brenda Ueland
#21. A bad book and good marketing won't work, the same way a good book and bad marketing will also not work. There is no choice in the matter that if you need to write a good book, you also need to have good marketing for it.
Amish Tripathi
#22. Once the day's work starts there is little chance to walk, to ride or to take part in a game. Taking walks or rides early in the morning is a lonesome business, and the inevitable Secret Service guard when the president leaves the White House grounds is not enlivening company.
Herbert Hoover
#23. It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best. - W. Edwards Deming
Joseph Grenny
#24. Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.
William Congreve
#25. I picture Cully tromping through that high, deep snow. That's how I feel physically from all of this. Moving through grief like it's a thick drift, exhausting but enlivening. It makes your muscles ache. It makes you feel you've inhabited your body completely.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#26. If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in a magical and enlivening way, we will listen to the story. But if the language doesn't cast a spell, we will listen to it only if it is telling us something that actually happened.
Lorrie Moore
#27. Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature desperate creatures, they usually do a pretty good (or pretty awful, but always interesting) job of lying.
John Hodgman
#28. Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.
Stephen Crane
#29. America was born out of despair & we'll all go through it in our lifetime. It's what we do with it that will help determine our greatness!
Timothy Pina
