Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
My parents taught me the way to deal with being picked on was to be compassionate. I had to defend myself physically,… — Saul Rubinek Copy Share Image
Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a living human being, can we justify assuming without… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We grow up with such an idealistic view on how our life should be; love, friendships, a career or even the place… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
“I believe the message in the hymn “Rise Up, O Men of God” (Hymns, no. 324) is a plea, a call, a… — Robert L. Millet Copy Share Image
The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
So it is with life. Those thorns, the prickly problems of life, cause us to strive to rise above them and then,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Someone said, and rightfully, that "property is theft'." There's no way a man can stand and tell me that he owns an… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them,… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Its a call-to-action to rise from the dead and actually live. Were born spiritually dead, and Im calling for everyone to become… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
Some of you may feel that you are not as attractive and beautiful and glamorous as you would like to be. Rise… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Theres this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
[Some young athletes] get home, look at social media, and they have thousands of people ripping it out of them, telling them… — David Haye Copy Share Image