Upwardness Quotes

#1. All we have to do is to receive what we are given ... We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic. - Author: Vernon Howard

#2. Kids in North Lawndale need not be confused about their prospects: Cook County's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center sits directly adjacent to the neighborhood. - Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates

#3. Resentment and bitterness and old grudges were dead things, which rotted the hands that grasped them. - Author: Winston Graham

#4. Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. - Author: Adam Smith

#5. It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do. - Author: Janet Jackson

#6. I do have a stylist who helps me shop, because I don't have time to shop. - Author: Kesha

#7. I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.' - Author: Katee Sackhoff

#8. There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. ( ... ) However bad life may seem ( ... ) While there's life, there is hope. - Author: Stephen Hawking

#9. We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come. - Author: Earl Blumenauer

#10. Just make sure you're fighting for the right stuff. Don't destroy yourself for something ... someone ... who isn't going to fight just as hard for you. - Author: Melissa Pearl

#11. Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love. - Author: Pitirim Sorokin

#12. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. - Author: Henry David Thoreau

#13. Nu exista pe lume leac care sa tamaduiasca ceea ce nu tamaduieste fericirea/ There is no cure in this world which heals what happiness does not heal. - Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#14. The means of choice:
She might choose to ascend
The falling dream,
By some angelic power without a name
Reverse the motion, plunge into upwardness,
Know height without an end,
Density melt to air, silence yield a voice
Within her fall she felt the pull of Grace. - Author: May Sarton

#15. I want to stay with dancing, because that's what I want to do the rest of my life. I want to be in film and be acting and maybe even modeling a little bit. - Author: Maddie Ziegler