#higher

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

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If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer. ↗

— Susan Powter

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For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy. ↗

— Mario Puzo

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I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind. ↗

— Herbert Read

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Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action. ↗

— Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

#daily #daily life #ends #higher #life

We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost. ↗

— Roy Romer

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The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

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The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#belief #coherence #developing #eternity #growing

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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