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• My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes. They are the cradle of the morning, they are the kingdom of the stars. My songs are lost in their depths. Let me but soar in that sky, in its lonely immensity. Let me but cleave its clouds and spread wings in its sunshine.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Song, Lonely, Morning

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.75, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• True wealth is having a healthy mind, body, and spirit. True wealth is having the knowledge to maneuver and navigate the mental obstacles that inhibit your ability to soar.

  RuPaul

  Healthy, Mind, Body

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• There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Dream, Grief

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• If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without the soaring birds, the great forests, the sounds and coloration of the insects, the free-flowing streams, the flowering fields, the sight of clouds by day and the stars at night, we become impoverished in all that makes us human.

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Stars, Night

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.200, Crown

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• Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of selfpity and pain.

  Diana Peterfreund

  Hurt, Pain, Two

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• If you want to be successful, you have to jump, there's no way around it. When you jump, I can assure you that your parachute will not open right away. But if you do not jump, your parachute will never open. If you're safe, you'll never soar!

  Steve Harvey

  Successful, Safe, Want

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• It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is happening, that we cannot get on top of what is happening, that we are stuck in the middle of it, in medias res, inter-esse, amazing and bewildered. We cannot soar over what is happening with philosophy's eagle-wings. What's happening has clipped our wings.

  John D. Caputo

  Philosophy, Eagles, Wings

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• Out of the night Hopper came, and Perrin was one with the wolf. Hopper, the cub who had watched the eagles soar, and wanted so badly to fly through the sky as the eagles did. The cub who hopped and jumped and leaped until he could leap higher than any other wolf, who never lost the cub's yearning to soar through the sky. [...] Something crashed into his head, and as he fell, he did not know if it was Hopper or himself who died.

  Robert Jordan

  Night, Eagles, Sky

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• Sometimes love needed a lift from its guardian angels, to get its feet off the ground. But once it made its first early beats toward flight, it had to be trusted to take wing on its own and soar past the highest conceivable heights, into the heavens-and beyond.

  Lauren Kate

  Angel, Past, Wings

  Lauren Kate (2012). “Fallen in Love”, p.201, Random House

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• When the mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space...it pursues emptiness; but when man dives deep within himself, he experiences the fullness of existence.

  Meher Baba

  Men, Space, Mind

  Meher Baba (1977). “The Mastery of Consciousness: An Introduction and Guide to Practical Mysticism and Methods of Spiritual Development”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.

  Oliver DeMille

  Class, Leader, Political

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• The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

  Yann Martel

  Mind, Suffering, Want

  Yann Martel (2002). “Life Of Pi”, p.381, Canongate Books

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• Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages to rise by as much as nine degrees Fahrenheit sometime after the year 2000.

  Carl Sagan

  Average, Years, Atmosphere

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• How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to be at once an arrow soaring skyward and an oak planted firmly in the ground? The meritocratic culture hones strivers on every aspect of their lives save one - how to cultivate character.

  David Brooks

  Honesty, Character, Arrows

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• I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.

  David Foster Wallace

  Worry, Tedium, Felt

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• If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs.  If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Friendship, Eagles

  Andy Andrews (2004). “The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Cutting, Men, Wings

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• You can be someone running...who is just a soaring leader of people. But if you don't have the finances down, you're going to have a problem.

  Alec Baldwin

  Education, Running, People

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• There are in me, in literary terms, two distinct characters: one who is taken with roaring, with lyricism, with soaring aloft, with all the sonorities of phrase and summits of thought; and the other who digs and scratches for truth all he can, who is as interested in the little facts as the big ones, who would like to make you feel materially the things he reproduces.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Taken, Character

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• As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of what is cautious, calculating, and priggish--about half of our social conscience, indeed. Both of them permit us, in blessed moments of revelation, to soar above the common level of our lives.

  Robertson Davies

  Blessed, Tragedy, Half

  Robertson Davies (1961). “The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose”, London : Secker & Warburg

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• Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet toits god of art. Latin is the embodiment of the weighty and concentrated speech which is hammered and pressed and polished into the shape of its perfection, as the ethically minded Romans believed that the soul also should be wrought.

  Havelock Ellis

  Running, Art, Latin

  Havelock Ellis (1915). “Impressions and comments”

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• Who aspires must down as low
  As high he soar'd.

  John Milton

  Lows, Paradise Lost Book 9, Aspire

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.147

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• I live within the vivid colors of my imagination, soaring with rainbow-feathered birds, racing the desert winds on horseback, wrapped in ancient tribal jewels, dancing with mythical tigers in steamy jungles.

  Laurel Burch

  Jewels, Color, Wind

  "Marin County artist Laurel Burch dead at 61 of rare bone disease" by Heather Maddan, www.sfgate.com. September 23, 2007.

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• Mary Kay knew that when you put people first and then surround them with processes and disciplines that recognize their efforts, performance will soar.

  David C. Novak

  Discipline, People, Effort

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• When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers.

  Niall Ferguson

  Fall, Painful, Interest

  Niall Ferguson (2008). “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World”, p.45, Penguin

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