It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion. - Robert Southey
Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past. - Eknath Easwaran
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. - Anonymous Holy Bible Job 5 7
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. - Joseph Conrad
Anger is an agro-chemical that makes self-destruction to grow faster. Like a stone thrown upward, all angry people eventually fall down into the dirty ditch of sorrowful self-harm and a pathetic loss of real-self. - Israelmore Ayivor
The road to Heaven is ascension; always climb upward. - Duane Hewitt
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. - Charlotte Brontë
In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile. - Hunter S. Thompson
We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities - Henry B. Eyring
we can look underneath a rock or we can gaze upward into the skywe may choose to hear the whisper, or only turn to feel the warmth of a breathall to grasp the moment a message is passing bye, knowing all the time that we are not alone by chance... - levi paul taylor
Next she turned the gun upward and thrust the muzzle into her mouth. Now it was aimed directly at her cerebrum-- the gray labyrinth where consciousness resided. - Haruki Murakami
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall. - Dante Alighieri
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. - William Congreve
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone. - J. R. R. Tolkien
I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward. - Charlotte Bronte
I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal walls, making its slow climb upward until its melody can be heard all around. - Elin Stebbins Waldal
Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers. - Alfred Edersheim
Ideas become reality. once you hit that reality, you get a new idea. it's a virtuous upward spiral. However, the majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea. - Richie Norton
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun.
We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take. - Raphael Zernoff