I watch and listen, helpless to help. There is no point in saying ‘This, too, shall pass.’ For a time, we do not even want it to pass. We hold on to grief, fearing that its lifting will be the final betrayal. - Ahdaf Soueif
How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it. - Virginia Woolf
We can assist other souls’ hearts and make their world brighter when they are traveling through a difficult experience not by lowering ourselves to their level of sadness but by lifting them up with the light of our joy. - Molly Friedenfeld
We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow-citizens, usually by force; the messianic delusion is our national disease. - H.L. Mencken
You become strong by lifting others up, not pulling them down. - Matshona Dhliwayo
One does not become strong lifting feathers. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success. - Ryan Lilly
The mist just keeps on lifting and soon I'll be able to see all the way, as far as the earth's curvature allows. It's a blessing, that curvature, that hidden hemisphere-if we could take it all in at one, why move? - Walter Kirn
We are the light that needs no lifting, as long as our flames burn we are interwoven. A whisper within the heart is sufficient, to perpetuate the wave that we began together, beyond the fabric of the time we yet rest upon - Tom Althouse
The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada.
Lifting lives, 140 characters at a time. - Germany Kent
Love is waiting for you, lifting her hand, open your heart and accept it. - Debasish Mridha
These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar. - John Muir
A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. - James Allen
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard. - Peter Drucker
Being a Christian, for some other people, is not cool-praying, reading bible, lifting your hands while singing Christian songs, listening to a boring sermon? But would it still be cool if you're already in hell? Think about that. - Aby Santos
Not by discussions nor by argument, but by lifting up Christ shall we draw men unto Him. - James Hudson Taylor
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. - John Holmes
We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high as or higher than we are. - Ezra Taft Benson
So Lightning says to Mud,What would happen if I struck your blood?And Mud says, Brother, It would hurt, And make me the motherOf every living thing.But, Fire Boy, you ain’t lifting my grass skirtUntil you burn me a ring. - Sherman Alexie
Love is waiting for you lifting to hand, open your heart, and accept it. - Debasish Mridha
We rise by lifting others. - Moosa Rahat