Quotes About Lifting Your Spirits

#1. Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.

Wafa Sultan

#2. I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.

Umberto Eco

#3. I better understood the little lies that liquor told, lifting spirits and drowning sorrows while withholding the whole truth--that, in the end, it is the spirit in peril of drowning. Sorrows have gills.

Charles M. Blow

#4. The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.

Jonathan Sacks

#5. I think everyone should sing - it's so good for you, as it makes you breathe deeply, and it's good for you emotionally, too. It's a brilliant release way of lifting the spirits.

Twiggy

#6. There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

Rich Lowry

#7. People are moping around and I think campaigns can be about lifting the spirits of the American people.

Jeb Bush

#8. The ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.

Phyllis Bottome

#9. The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.

Will Rogers

#10. And for the rest of her life, the girl, the woman, she never made a mark on anyone either that proved anything absolutely for certain, that she could ever see, about what she had done at any time, and this does not break her heart.

"Cloud

Diane Williams

#11. My words are easy to understand and easy to perform,
Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them.

Laozi

#12. It was the truth. I felt a yearning love for every instant that passed.

Banana Yoshimoto

#13. Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not?

Miuccia Prada

#14. Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren't worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others.

Aldous Huxley

#15. It was the chemistry that caused this lifting of the spirits. Chemistry lifted you up out of the mud and flung you up among the stars. Except,

Alan Bradley

#16. Wine is sort of thrilling and sensual, and bread is familiar and essential.

Lily King

#17. Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.

Juliette Lewis

#18. Now you are burnt-out husks, your spirits haggard, sere, always breeding over your wanderings long and hard, your hearts never lifting with any joy - you've suffered far too much.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#19. To be awake is to be alive.

Henry David Thoreau

#20. By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, "I'm going to go here. I'm going to go there." It's just a little bit more freeing than a stand-alone procedural, where you work backwards from the end.

Veena Sud