#lift

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#difficulties #firm #hold #knowledge #lift

We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths. ↗

— Ricardo Flores Magon

#anybody #arms #bread #free #lift

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. ↗

— Don Marquis

#into #man #must #seduced #uplifted

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. ↗

— Yann Martel

#dint #duh #effect #emotions #ends

Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#forgiving #lifts #very #water

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#coming #done #even #ever #hadn

It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#did #ego #egypt #find #first

I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful! ↗

— Paul Taylor

#against #audience #here #human #human nature

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different. ↗

— Roger Moore

#age #any #different #down #easily

Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#audience #encourage #everyday #everyday life #laughter