Spirit Lifting Quotes

#1. In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.

Edgar Allan Poe

#2. What cook can match herself against hunger and memory?

Joanne Greenberg

#3. Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting up of the lid of a blind man's eye? Only when the Holy Spirit comes is there any life and force and power.

Charles Spurgeon

#4. There's nothing better than lifting somebody's spirit with music.

Darlene Love

#5. American feminism must become less parochial, so that it is every bit as concerned with sex slavery in Asia as with Title IX sports programs in Illinois.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#6. We have to unclasp our palms and let go of every alternate reality where we're happier, stronger, brighter because of all the things we did differently. Those universes do not exist. But ours does. And it's okay here, if we open our eyes up and let it be.

Heidi Priebe

#7. Devotion is a spiritual act of egoless surrender. When the Self blinds the spirit too tightly, then devotion expands the blinding by lifting us beyond ourselves. We get the powerful lesson that the Self survives even without constant attention.

Anodea Judith

#8. The only person that I'm really feeling - because she has an identity of her own, even though she has listened to Mary J. Blige - is Jill Scott.

Mary J. Blige

#9. I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my legs, my shoulders, and my stomach.

Kat Von D.

#10. When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.

Aberjhani

#11. Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

Andy Rooney

#12. In life you gotta take chances the hell with shoulda, woulda, and coulda you never know what the out come will be. It may be a life full of success ...

Christopher J. Williams

#13. If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.

Bobby Knight

#14. I am looking for a human.

Diogenes

#15. To strengthen the muscles of your heart, the best exercise is lifting someone else's spirit whenever you can.

Dodinsky

#16. I don't want to go back any further. I don't want to miss any of the rest.

Rainbow Rowell

#17. I think it's very natural to get nervous. I've usually got concerns about a specific thing in the opening which might worry me. I have to be relaxed and balanced emotionally and then I can concentrate on the moves during the game. Then things will be ok.

Judit Polgar

#18. 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

#19. There are silences and silences. No one of them is like another. There is the silence of grief in velvet-draped rooms of a plushly carpeted funeral parlor which is far different from the bleak and terrible silence of grief in a widower's lonely bedroom.

Dean Koontz

#20. You can draw!" I exclaimed.
"Yeah," his voice echoed from the kitchen.
"I mean really draw [ ... ]"
"I told you I would major in art, hypothetically."
"Yeah, but I thought the bullshit you fed me about lifting up the human spirit was compensation for not being able to draw.

Jennifer Echols

#21. One dies of thirst just when the palm tress have appeared on the horizon.

Paulo Coelho