Uplifting Quotes - Page 29

• Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Tales, Garments, Everlasting

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• Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Memorial Day, Warrior, Men

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• So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.

  Nora Ephron

  Hair, Dry, Week

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• I realized after reading the fourth chapter of St. John's Gospel, that Christ was truly the Divine Saviour he claimed to be, and no one but He could transform and uplift the downtrodden women of India. ... Thus my heart was drawn to the religion of Christ.

  Pandita Ramabai

  Reading, Heart, India

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• The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.

  Nelson Mandela

  Song, Jobs, Giving

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Nov 22, 2014

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• A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

  Mitch Albom

  Should Have, People, Quality

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• Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful.

  Charles Osgood

  Funny, Baby, Children

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• Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

  Matt Lucas

  Depression, Enemy, Want

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2009.

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• A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Determination, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Anyone who influences others is a leader.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Success, Leader

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• There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Speech on radio, 21 Mar. 1943, in Complete Speeches (1974) vol. 7, p. 6761

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• The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Success, Peace

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• The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh biblical scrutiny and, if necessary, reform.

  John Stott

  Inspirational, Success, Biblical

  John Stott (2013). “Balanced Christianity”, p.68, InterVarsity Press

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• Where nature goes to create stars, galaxies, quarks and leptons, you and I also go to create ourselves.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stars, Quarks, Galaxy

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.

  KRS-One

  Hip Hop, Mind, Hips

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• A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It is only the full emergence of the soul, the full descent of the native light and power of the Spirit and the consequent replacement or transformation and uplifting of our insufficient mental and vital nature by a spiritual and supramental Supernature that can effect this evolutionary miracle.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Light, Miracle

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “The Future Evolution of Man: The Divine Life on Earth”, p.39, editionNEXT.com

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• The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that keep its field alight.

  Rupert Hughes

  Memorial Day, Blood, Flags

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• Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

  Michael Stipe

  Music, Records, Sometimes

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• Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

  Vera Rubin

  Science, Demand, Most Inspiring

  "Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters". Book by Vera Rubin, 1997.

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of
  any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Philosophy, Men, Law

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• Uplifting traditions . . . that promote love for Deity and unity in families and among people are especially important.

  Donald L. Hallstrom

  Love, People, Unity

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• The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Labour Movement, Essence, Organized Labor

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• It now seems to be quite a thing to pull down the mighty from their seats and roll them in the mire. This practice deserves pronounced condemnation. Hero worship is a tremendous force in uplifting and strengthening. Humanity, let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Hero, Practice

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