Quotes of: Rises Keyword

Considering one's plate is full with circumstance, how senseless is it to assume one is able to digest someone else's hopelessness?

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Old habits for old people; reinvent yourself while you still can!

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Those who do not succeed do not believe in their ability to exercise the potential power to forge beyond perceptions of limitations.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

What are you prepared to give for your dream? If it is not everything...stop pipe dreaming.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

No matter how much and how often - 'things' will never compensate for loss or absence...no matter how guilty a parent feels.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

What is Aldous capable of?" "Aldous is two thousands years old. He's capable of anything." "Aldous Nix is two thousands years old?" "So, I've heard. He doesn't invite me to his birthday parties.

The Rise of the Hotel Dumort

I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I saw for once and for ever, not to immortals, but to those who live briefly and always under the shadow of death and loss.

The Rise of Endymion

No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God's valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn't know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations.

Shannon L. Alder

If we aim to act in harmony with the laws of Good, we rise above all other laws and become a law unto ourselves; co-workers with God and helpers in nature. Ours is the privilege, ours the loss, if we fail to live up to our highest possibilities.

Max Heindel

Father Brennan: When the Jews return to Zion / And a comet rips the sky / And the Holy Roman Empire rises, / Then You and I must die. / From the eternal sea he rises, / Creating armies on either shore, / Turning man against his brother / 'Til man exi...

The Omen

There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didn't want to be d...

Eddie Murphy

Charlie Allnut: What are you being so mean for, Miss? A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature. Rose Sayer: Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.

The African Queen

We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.

Adlai Stevenson

Am learning every day that there are more threads to me That I have been rising and changing, rediscovering who I am becoming who I want to be putting the broken pieces back together and becoming an arrow continuing to rise into the light.

Love

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.

Collected Works: Wise Blood / A Good Man is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear it Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays and Letters

I’ve long considered becoming a writer to be the death of nightmares. For me at least, since I started writing I hadn’t had any. Something really terrible or awful happens in a dream and you wake up and think, awesome, and reach for a pen and pap...

The Dead Will Rise First

A tawdry, cartoonlike version of female sexuality has become so ubiquitous, it no longer seems particular. What we once regarded as a *kind* of sexual expression we now regard *as* sexuality.

Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

Hope is the one positive force to help us persevere during our darkest storms. Jesus gives us hope when He walks beside us through the fiery furnace and helps us rise above adversity.

Harvest of Hope: Living Victoriously Through Adversity

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society, the way that a child catches the measles. But people with understanding realize that their presuppositions should be *chosen* after a careful consideration of which wo...

How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

...all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their child, in a scientific vacuum. (p. 35)

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America