Higher Quotes - Page 35

• The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further, or box better.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Running, Believe, Athlete

  Bryce Courtenay (2006). “The Power Of One”, p.676, Penguin UK

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• Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.

  Julia Cameron

  Motivational, Recovery, New Beginnings

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.15, Penguin

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• Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Spiritual, Credit, Levels

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.270, St. Martin's Press

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• What are they teaching these thugs? -Why are there so many of them? -What is the Institute for Higher Aeronautics? -How many of the are there? There are only six of us! Why? -Why is DC public transportation so weird? -Why don't we mug those Eraser goons for money more often? -Fang's Blog

  James Patterson

  Teaching, Thug, Six

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• An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and dates, but the love of that higher truth, the truth of nature and principals, which is a primitive law of the human mind.

  James F. Cooper

  Law, Names, Interesting

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• who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? ( and if you and I should get into it,if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we'd go up higher with all the pretty people than houses and steeples and clouds: go sailing away and away sailing into a keen city which nobody's ever visited,where always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, Flower, Moon

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Tulips and Chimneys”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Aim higher in case you fall short.

  Suzanne Collins

  Inspirational, Fall, Catching On

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.523, Scholastic Inc.

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• I’ve never met anyone who had a monkey for a friend before. (Maggie) I don’t know. I think those two guys you were with would qualify as primates, but then, that’s an insult to the primate and I don’t want Marvin to get pissed at me. He has higher sensibilities, you know? (Wren)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Two, Guy

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• Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They had come down from the back mountains and higher places to hold forth their hands for something they thought civilization could offer, and they never dreamed the sadness and the poor broken delusion of it.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sadness, Eye, Dark

  "On the Road".

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• Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Spiritual, Wealth

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• here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

  e. e. cummings

  I Love You, Spiritual, Stars

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck

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• Devotion gradually progresses to higher levels. . . . One type goes to God and asks Him to remove his suffering. Another one will ask for money or material things. A third will request liberation or release from his bondage. And the fourth will not ask for anything. He will just enjoy praying and praising his Lord. That is the highest form of prayer. (Beyond Word, 119)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Prayer, Suffering, Progress

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• I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Spiritual, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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• Sometimes the Lord brings us low before he can lift us higher.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Sometimes, Lord, Lows

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• But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Order, Challenges, Comfort

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.55, A&C Black

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• Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Passion, Ballet

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• Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Real, Levels, Limits

  Banana Yoshimoto, Russell F. Wasden (1998). “Amrita”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Nice, Belief, Kind

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• Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.

  Umberto Eco

  School, Irrelevance, Numbers

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Life, Perseverance, Rights

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2010). “Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• To be a druid is to embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it. That is why we'll never rule this world. We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further,trying to fly higher...and falling

  Darren Shan

  Fall, Men, Forever

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• Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.

  Alice Hoffman

  Tears, One Day, Necks

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.136, Penguin

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• As sure as this Earth is turnin, souls burnin / In search of higher learnin, turnin in every direction seeking direction / My moms cryin cause her insides are dyin / Her son tryin her patience, keep her heart racin / A million beats a minute, I know I push you to your limit / But it's this game, love—I'm caught up all in it / They make it so you can't prevent it, never give it / You gotta take it, can't fake it, I keep it authentic

  Jay-Z

  Mom, Heart, Son

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• If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or if inner feelings bring humiliation and recognition of his dependence on that power, this crushing of the ego may open the door to grace.

  Paul Brunton

  Crush, Doors, Grace

  Paul Brunton (1988). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The religious urge. The reverential life”

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• Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.

  Paul Brunton

  Character, Growth, Intuition

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the quest. Relax and retreat”, Larson Pubn

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