Lifting Quotes
287 quotes by 247 authors
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On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds.…
— Aldo Leopold
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some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are…
— Francesca Lia Block
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When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning…
— Peter Matthiessen
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Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together,…
— Amy Tan
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Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty
— Khaled Hosseini
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Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.
— Steve Toltz
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Next out of the hall came the sisters and their husbands. Before I could say anything, the captain had clamped his hand over my mouth…
— Christopher Moore
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Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly teaches me that…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.
— Jim Butcher
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Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.
— Sheri L. Dew
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Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very…
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.
— Margaret Atwood
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It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives…
— Frances Mayes
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She stretched out her hand, saying, “Vernon! My dear, what a delightful surprise!†“What’s surprising about it?†he enquired, lifting his black brows. “Didn’t you…
— Georgette Heyer
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Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping me by the…
— Roberto Bolano
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Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.
— Charles Spurgeon
Who Wrote These Lifting Quotes
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