Uplifting Quotes - Page 23

• When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and he wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of looking at the sky comes, not from what one contemplates, but from that uplift of one's head.

  Ayn Rand

  Sky, Peculiar, Gone

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.713, Penguin

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• May you become as the waves of one sea, stars of the same heaven, fruits adorning the same tree, roses of one garden in order that through you the oneness of humanity may establish its temple in the world of mankind, for you are the ones who are called to uplift the cause of unity among the nations of the earth.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Stars, Commitment, Garden

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• I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted, can bring to readers a connection to the wonder of life. A good novel shows how life can and ought to be lived. It not only entertains but energizes and uplifts readers.

  Terry Goodkind

  Believe, Book, Reading

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• All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

  Rudyard Kipling

  Memorial Day, Freedom, Father

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.4122, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Inspirational, Happy Birthday, Inspiring

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• To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Positive, Looks, Succeed

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• Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.

  Cameron Dokey

  Taken, Gone, Given

  Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night. Seeing two guys who'd just as soon cut each other's throats in their off hours moving in unison with grace and ease can be as uplifting as any chemical stimulant or organized religion.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Beautiful, Moving, Cutting

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• Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Cute, Positive, Leadership

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• The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you'll see there's a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, Positive, Pain

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• Passion is what makes life interesting, what ignites our soul, drives our curiosity, fuels our love and carries our friendship, stimulates our intellect, and pushes our limit.... A passion for life is contagious and uplifting. Passion cuts both ways.... Those that make you feel on top of the world are equally able to turnit upside down.

  Jon Krakauer

  Passion, Cutting, Interesting

  Jon Krakauer (2010). “Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman”, p.100, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It's always something

  Gilda Radner

  Clutter

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Life, Strong

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

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• Some foreign investors accuse us of being unfair to shareholders by using our resources for community development. Yes, this is money that could have made for dividend payouts, but it also is money that's uplifting and improving the quality of life of people in the rural areas where we operate and work. We owe them that.

  Ratan Tata

  Money, People, Community

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• Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  War, People, Honor

  "Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography".

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• In those times we yearn to have more in our lives, we should dwell on the things we already have. In doing so, we will often find that our lives are already full to overflowing.

  Jim Stovall

  Inspirational, Life, Should

  Jim Stovall (2010). “Today's the Day!”, p.43, David C Cook

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• Faith is all that dreamers need to see into the future.

  Jim Stovall

  Inspirational, Life, Dreamer

  Jim Stovall (2010). “Today's the Day!”, p.43, David C Cook

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• How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Positive, Educational

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, Simon and Schuster

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• When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Funny, Running, Children

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.4, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Beautiful, Memorial Day, Military

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog Papers”

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• We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

  Gregory Maguire

  Funny, Baby, Pregnancy

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• We never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow.

  B. J. Palmer

  Inspirational, Relationship, Success

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• Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.

  C.E. Murphy

  Leaving, Stripping, Exposed

  C.E. Murphy (2010). “Truthseeker”, p.42, Del Rey

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• I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

  Bob Riley

  Memorial Day, Sacrifice, Long

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