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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Elevating.
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau
Related topics: Values Motivational Action
In many ways, it is easier to be a good giver than a good receiver.
The giver chooses the gift and the timing.
More important, societal and religious traditions
tend to elevate the status of giver and lower the status of receiver.
When the Bible (Acts 20:32-35) speaks of it being
more blessed to give than to receive,
I believe that a better translation might be
"take" rather than "receive," as the context
of that passage is "coveting."
Certainly there is nothing blessed about coveting,
stealing, begging, or demanding,
however the skill of graciously receiving a freely offered gift
is another matter entirely.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are old heads in the world
who cannot help me by their example or advice
to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself;
but I believe that it is in my power
to elevate myself this very hour
above the common level of my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability
of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
- Henry David Thoreau
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Give me the luxuries of life
and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
I argue thee that love is life.
And life hath immortality.
- Emily Dickinson
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Today... Give thanks for the miracles -
Give thanks for the love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
Today, I choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance, love, selflessness, kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment.
It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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