Quiet solitude is a nutritional need of the ascending body.

“My last name comes after my first name, but it came before my first name, and it’ll be around after my first name dies…

— Jarod Kintz

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In her final months Princess Diana was being shat upon by the tabloids -- basically for sleeping with an Arab. When she died, these…

— Martin Amis

To be a stranger in a strange land: Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before, There where my…

— Wang Wei

The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if…

— Peter Ackroyd

The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the objects (viz.,…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim - for self-development, or…

— Margaret Caroline Anderson

Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In the ascending…

— John M. Tyler

A "portal" is an opening (door, window, or opening). A heavenly portal or a glory portal is a heavenly opening through which God's goodness…

— Patricia King

We know that Jesus could not have ascended to heaven because there is no physical heaven anywhere in the universe. Even ascending at the…

— Joseph Campbell

An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a place where…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

“I’m not descended from anybody. All my ancestors are ascending from me.”

— Jarod Kintz

The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.

— Albert Schweitzer

Each of these "houses of hope" had their own unique "ingredients" based on their inheritance, but I also saw some common ingredients that were…

— Bob Hartley

With the Republican Party's presidential front-runner proposing that all Muslims should be banned from entering the United States, that perhaps there ought to be…

— Rachel Maddow