Something Higher Quotes
28 quotes by 26 authors
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to…
— Teresa of Avila
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My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote.…
— Paul Klee
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"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.
— James A. Baldwin
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Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be…
— Victor Hugo
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Psychics exploit the human beings' natural desire that longs for something higher. … The same way a pimp exploits the natural desire to be with…
— Christine O'Donnell
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The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will hold me when…
— James Frey
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The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and…
— Abraham Kuyper
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I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a…
— Yasmin Mogahed
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In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between…
— Joseph Campbell
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The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day…
— Uta Hagen
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You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher…
— Willi Unsoeld
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I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.
— David McCullough
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Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their…
— Leland Ryken
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If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you…
— Frederick Lenz
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Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it…
— Ben Okri
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The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear…
— Milan Kundera
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Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage…
— David O. McKay
Who Wrote These Something Higher Quotes
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