Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annie Dillard

Hasidism has a tradition that one of man's purposes is to assist God in the work of redemption by "hallowing" the things of creation. By a tremendous heave of his spirit, the devout man frees the divine sparks trapped in the mute things of time; he uplifts the forms and moments of creation, bearing them aloft into that rare air and hallowing fire in which all clays must shatter and burst. Keeping the subsoil world under trees in mind, in intelligence, is the least I can do.

Douglas MacArthur

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.

Doug E. Fresh

There's nothing more special than talking in your community, and using your celebrity to uplift people and help them.

Doug E. Fresh

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

Doug Larson

It's your ability to inspire and uplift other people that matters, not your ability to outdo them.

Colin Powell

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.

Damien Hirst

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

David Hawkins

One makes a gift of one's life and endeavors by sanctifying it with love, and devotion and selfless service. When seeking to uplift others, we are uplifted in the process. Every kind thought or smile therefore benefits oneself as well as all the world.

Dolly Parton

I just love life. I love people. I love to write, that's my gift. I love to sing. I have a good attitude. I like to think I shine from the inside.

Deepak Chopra

If we suspend judgment and look to how we can make conscious choices to uplift the situation, we can be sure that we are doing all we can to attract a happier and more harmonious outcome.

Dean O'Gorman

While I'd like to make movies that are uplifting, there's always that part of you that goes, 'I want to play the evil guy because it's not me.' So anything that is not me is a challenge, and if I rise to the challenge, then I've kind of proved myself.

Anthony Burgess

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

Andrew Weil

We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.

Chuck D.

Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.

Christopher Reeve

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

Anna Julia Cooper

Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development - begun now and ending never. And a life made true cannot confine itself - it must reach out and twine around every pulsing interest within reach of its uplifting tendrils.

Andre Rieu

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

Ann Druyan

It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet.

Booker T. Washington

The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.

Brendan Myers

Magic underlies the relationship between us, and the greater immensities of birth and death. Thus the experience of being in the presence of something magical is an empowering, uplifting experience. Magic, understood this way, contributes meaning to life.

Eckhart Tolle

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

Arianna Huffington

As a blogger, Chez Pazienza is filled with outrage, passion and insight -- delivered with a distinctive point of view, a wicked sense of humor, and a two-fisted style of prose. In Dead Star Twilight, he turns all these on himself -- and produces a fierce, funny, disturbing, but ultimately uplifting memoir. This is the book A Million Little Pieces dreamed of being.

Ashleigh Brilliant

My life is a performance for which I was never given any chance to rehearse.

Brian Tracy

To remain confident and positive, think about your goals all the time.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Yes, we will make mistakes. Yes, we will falter. But as we seek to increase our love for God and strive to love our neighbor, the light of the gospel will surround and uplift us. The darkness will surely fade, because it cannot exist in the presence of light. As we draw near to God, He will draw near to us.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We each have a covenant responsibility to be sensitive to the needs of others and serve as the Savior did-to reach out, bless, and uplift those around us.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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.

Dennis Kucinich

Every year at this time, an important phrase marks the season: peace on earth and goodwill towards men. It's so common we sometimes forget about what it really means - that we strive for a world without war, a society where we respect and help our neighbors, a place where we protect and uplift our most in need. This isn't a phrase we should live by for one day or one month. It's a set of values that must bond and motivate us every day.

Deepak Chopra

Robert Gass and 'On Wings of Song' bring about magical transformation and inspire people with extraordinary, uplifting, and spiritual music.

William Shakespeare

Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view.

Byron Katie

When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

Charles Saatchi

Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.

Carolyn Wells

... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.