Elevated Quotes

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
- Henry David Thoreau

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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

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

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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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- 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.

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

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

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

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

Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

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

Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
- Bartholomew

Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- 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

There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand

If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa

Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa

Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa

The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa

Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay

Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin

Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie

We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha

Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa

Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

All you need is love.
- John Lennon

True love has no limits.
- Anonymous

Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung

Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth

Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau

Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau

I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie