Higher Quotes

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Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They… — Jack Kerouac
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. — Mahatma Gandhi
here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the… — E E Cummings
Devotion gradually progresses to higher levels. . . . One type goes to God and asks Him to remove his suffering. Another one will ask… — Swami Satchidananda
I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another… — Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes the Lord brings us low before he can lift us higher. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion. — Agnes de Mille
Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you... — Banana Yoshimoto
Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power. — Ellen Hopkins
Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's… — Umberto Eco
It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
To be a druid is to embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it. That is why we'll never rule… — Darren Shan
Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of… — Alice Hoffman
As sure as this Earth is turnin, souls burnin / In search of higher learnin, turnin in every direction seeking direction / My moms cryin… — Jay-Z
If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power… — Paul Brunton
Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness. — Paul Brunton
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a… — Joseph Campbell
Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world,… — Oscar Wilde
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest… — Henry David Thoreau

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