Upwards Quotes
83 quotes by 77 authors
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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
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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
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Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.
— Stephen Samuel Wise
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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
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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
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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
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I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'
— Esther Peterson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I’ve made upwards of a million bucks in the cops and robbers business.
— Broderick Crawford
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In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards
— Kevin Smith
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We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall down.
— Tulsi
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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
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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
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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
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
— Plato
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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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