Upwards Quotes

83 quotes by 77 authors

PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul… — Hans Bender
The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the… — Vinoba Bhave
Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith. — Stephen Samuel Wise
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken… — Robert Louis Stevenson
We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was… — Anatole France
Our thoughts ought by instinct to fly upwards from animals, men and natural objects to their creator. If created things are so utterly lovely, how… — Anthony of Padua
I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.' — Esther Peterson
This government does not believe that public safety is enhanced by carrying weapons. In fact, it has been a long-standing Canadian government practice to discourage… — Anne McLellan
In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why… — Betty Williams
Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That looking upward and… — Swami Vivekananda
What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure… — Georges Bernanos
See what is worth learning, and what is worth doing. Thus, you gain an understanding of what is vital, and what is not vital. You… — Goswami Kriyananda
Iâ€™ve made upwards of a million bucks in the cops and robbers business. — Broderick Crawford
In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards — Kevin Smith
We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall down. — Tulsi
No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections… — Richard Sibbes
Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should… — Andrei Tarkovsky
The person who is free of sexuality, whose sexuality has become a transformed phenomenon, is also free of money, is also free of ambition, is… — Rajneesh
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. — Plato
But when I look in the basin, among the curdlike blood clots, I see and elfin thorax, attentuated, its pencilline ribs all in parallel rows… — Sallie Tisdale

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