Uplifting Quotes - Page 30

• No jot, iota, or tittle of the temple rites is otherwise than uplifting and sanctifying. In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes to covenants of morality of life, consecration of person to high ideals, devotion to truth, patriotism to nation, and allegiance to God.

  James E. Talmage

  Details, Covenant, Temples

  James E. Talmage (2015). “The House of the Lord”, p.102, Latter-day Strengths

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• People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?"
  do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance
  of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.

  Kim Woo-jung

  Fire, Light, People

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• Jonas' music is inspiring, energizing, and spiritually uplifting. A brilliant songwriter, he writes music that reaches deep into the soul and awakens the best and highest in all of us. And Jonas delivers his songs with a power, joy, and grace that last long after the last note is played. The world needs this music!

  Marci Shimoff

  Song, Writing, Long

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• I've always loved journaling as a way to clear my mind. Whether I'm traveling or at home, the first thing I do when I wake up is pull out my notebook and record positive things that have happened to me as well as uplifting thoughts.

  Gloria Reuben

  Notebook, Home, Mind

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• I go to see my kids in school plays, ... I watched Lorna in a concert at the Westminster College of Music the other day and it was amazing. I felt very proud and surprised. I don't know why I was surprised, because I've known her for 17 years, but I've never seen her do anything like that in front of an audience. It's brave, it's uplifting.

  Sean Bean

  Kids, School, College

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• What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. ... I wrote some of my best love songs ever when I was unhappy and my saddest love songs when I was very much in love. When I wrote 'You're in My Heart', which is an uplifting song, I had just broken up with-Now who had I broken up with?. ... Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

  Rod Stewart

  Song, Best Love, Dad

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• Ever since I could remember anything, flowers have been like dear friends to me, comforters, inspirers, powers to uplift and to cheer.

  Celia Thaxter

  Cheer, Flower, Remember

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.5, Applewood Books

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• A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift, is approaching spiritual death.I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Betrayal, Military

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Heart, Goal

  Henrik Ibsen (1983*). “Seven plays”

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• As God talked with Arjuna, so will He talk with you. As He lifted up the spirit and consciousness of Arjuna, so will He uplift you. As he granted Arjuna supreme spiritual vision, so will He confer enlightenment on you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Vision, Enlightenment

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2007). “God Talks With Arjuna”, p.1103, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost delirious sense of simplicity. In this new simplicity you soon find that you have become, in a new and surer sense, and integral part of the simple, complex world you are walking through. And then you are really walking.

  Colin Fletcher

  Simple, Simplicity, Naked

  Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins (2015). “The Complete Walker IV”, p.849, Knopf

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• Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.

  Colin Powell

  Men, Racism, Black

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• My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their voices and seeing their faces, trying to know their hearts. And it has left me thinking about solitude - the kind that refreshes and restores. Loneliness is failed solitude.

  Sherry Turkle

  Loneliness, Heart, Thinking

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.288, Basic Books

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• Whatever the source of the leader's ideas, he cannot inspire his people unless he expresses vivid goals which in some sense they want. Of course, the more closely he meets their needs, the less "persuasive" he has to be, but in no case does it make sense to speak as if his role is force submission. Rather it is to strengthen and uplift, to make people feel that they are the origins, not the pawns, of the socio-political system.

  David McClelland

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Leadership: what every leader should know about people". Book by Robert A. Portnoy (p. 16), 1986.

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• We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting, inspiring, strengthening, but in the more modern and baser sense of soothing sorrow, dulling pain, and drying tears - the comfort of the cushion, not the comfort of the Cross.

  Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

  Prayer, Pain, Mean

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• What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.

  A. C. Benson

  Beauty, Song, Independent

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• Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful, we have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.

  John Galsworthy

  Beauty, Beautiful, Mean

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• I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

  Anton Corbijn

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• A delightful, intelligent read. Jim Zirin's sparkling account of life in the Second Circuit's famed MOTHER COURT is informative, riveting, accessible, and uplifting.  It would be criminal not to read this book.

  Linda Fairstein

  Mother, Book, Intelligent

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• I found the experiences that I had with sexuality were wonderful, they were very uplifting - we had a good time - and they didn't seem to affect the level of my mediation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Rama, Levels, Good Times

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• And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace, By breezes lull’d, or by the storm-blasts driv’n, Thy majesty uplifts the mind to heaven.

  Robert Montgomery

  Ocean, Iron, Feet

  Robert Montgomery (1828). “The Omnipresence of the Deity: A Poem”, p.26

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• Parents...rigidly monitor the selection of television programs...and other forms of entertainment for your family. Foster in your homes a love of knowledge through uplifting literature; wholesome books; selective movies; classical and exemplary popular music; entertainment that uplifts and edifies the spirit and mind.

  David B. Haight

  Book, Home, Parent

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• This mortal life is our playing field. Our goal is to learn to love God and to extend that same love toward our fellowman. We are here to build, uplift, treat fairly, and encourage all of Heavenly Father’s children.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Children, Father, Goal

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• When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

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• The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know...

  Khalil Gibran

  Healing, Leader, Vision

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