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• Don't wish today away. Don't waste it. Redeem one hour to be grateful. Let your thanksgiving rise above the din of disappointment - opportunities lost, mistakes made, the clamor of all that has not yet come.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Disappointment, Mistake, Grateful

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• Through the practice of devotion to God, I was coming to learn that preserving loving relations in this world required much forgiveness, tolerance, patience, gratitude, and humility. An essential virtue of humility is to accept others for what they are, despite differences. I contemplated again how the tendency to judge others is often a symptom of insecurity, immaturity, or selfishness, and I yearned to rise above it. Everyone is a child of God. God loves all of His children. If I wish to love God, I must learn to love those whom He loves.

  Radhanath Swami

  Gratitude, Children, Humility

  Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

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• No one is an overachiever. How can you rise above your level of competency? Everyone is an underachiever to different degrees. The harder you work, the more luck you will have.

  John Wooden

  Luck, Degrees, Different

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• Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise above it and create a new world. That's why I so deeply believe in alternative spaces. That's why I believe in the power of art and activism.

  Eve Ensler

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• Rise above principal and do what's right.

  Joseph Heller

  Principal

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• What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Evil, World

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Way, Adultery, Conventional

  Lectures on Literature "Madame Bovary" (1980)

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• I'm asking the American people to rise above the noise and the clutter of our broken politics.

  Donald Trump

  Character, People, Broken

  "Meet the Press". www.nbcnews.com. October 23, 2016.

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• An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Self, People

  "Conquering Self-centeredness". Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, August 11, 1957.

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• Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations.

  Charles Fillmore

  Time, Men, Space

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• Faith gives me the ability to rise above anything, because what is true in the spiritual realm is forever true. It cannot be denied.

  Gary Busey

  Spiritual, Giving, Forever

  "Gary Busey - Life's Apprentice". Interview with Chet Cooper and Lia Martirosyan, abilitymagazine.com.

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• Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a
  hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond
  himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Fate, Challenges

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.142, Beacon Press

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• The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

  Huey Long

  Time, Men, Good Man

  In T. Harry Williams 'Huey Long' (1969)

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• I began to realize that when you are at peace with your Maker you can, if not ignore human criticism, at least rise above it.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Peace, Criticism, Realizing

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• PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Attachment, Practice

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• Rise above the dualities, the opposites. See this whole world as the bubbles on the surface of water. See people as bubbles on the surface of the Brahman, of the Infinity...Water bubbles up, rises up. Like that, everybody is rising and having their own games and plays and dissolving back into the Infinite.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Opposites, Games, Play

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• Storm the castle
  Stem the tide
  Rise above yourself
  Cry baby cry
  Cry cry to heaven
  If that doesn't do it for you
  Go ahead and cry like hell

  Meat Loaf

  Song, Baby, Heaven

  Song: Cry To Heaven, 2006

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• It is only by entering the transcendental, the supernatural, the authentically spiritual order that man rises above the social. Until then, whatever he may do, the social is transcendent in relation to him.

  Simone Weil

  Spiritual, Men, Order

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.166, Psychology Press

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• Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Pain, Buddhism

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity these do not hop away from drought nor forward to summer. We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by rising above or diving below its plane; as the worm escapes drought and frost by boring a few inches deeper.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Travel, Evil

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.217, Xist Publishing

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• To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature, is therefore possible only to a person who mistakes the transient conditions of a certain historical age for the permanent conditions of human life.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Mistake, Law, Psychology

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• Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also infinitelyvaluable. There are artists who perhaps do not think art to be too great, for this is impossible, and yet they are not free enough to be able to rise above their own best accomplishments.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Thinking, Accomplishment

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• In the true, original, catholic, evangelical religion of Jesus Christ, and in this alone, all the divided religions of Christendom find their union, their repose, their support. Find out His mind, His character, His will; and in His greatness we shall rise above our littleness; in His strength we shall lose our weakness; in His peace we shall forget our discord.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Jesus, Character, Greatness

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1864). “A Reasonable, Holy, and Living Sacrifice: A Sermon Preached in Westminster Abbey, on January 10, 1864, Being the Day Following His Installation”, p.18

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• The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Disappointment, Littles, Reason Why

  "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.

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• I wanna run through the halls of my high school, I wanna scream at the top of my lungs. I just found out there's no such thing as the real world, just a lie you've got to rise above.

  John Mayer

  Education, Running, Real

  Song: No Such Thing

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