Rare Uplifting Quotes & Sayings

Only a fool trips on what is behind him. — Iceberg Slim

I would rather see a Turkish turban in the midst of the City [i.e., Constantinople] than the Latin mitre — Loukas Notaras

Actually, my experience over the past couple of years hasn't necessarily been something that would be interesting, were it committed to record. — Scott Hutchison

-our father used to tell us stories about a bookworm named Wally. Wally, a squiggly little vermicule with a red baseball cap, didn't merely like books. He ate them. — Anne Fadiman

Hurt me. Until I am outside pain. — Eimear McBride

Men of means have much to fear. Those with none know only bitterness. If you entrust yourself to the care of others you will be owned by them. If you care for others you will be enslaved by your own solicitude. If you conform to the world it will bind you hand and foot. If you do not, then it will think you mad. And so the question, where should we live? And how? Where to find a place to rest a while? And how to bring even short-lived peace to our hearts? — Kamo No Chomei

Hasidism has a tradition that one of man's purposes is to assist God in the work of redemption by "hallowing" the things of creation. By a tremendous heave of his spirit, the devout man frees the divine sparks trapped in the mute things of time; he uplifts the forms and moments of creation, bearing them aloft into that rare air and hallowing fire in which all clays must shatter and burst. Keeping the subsoil world under trees in mind, in intelligence, is the least I can do. — Annie Dillard

You know what happens to me! — Satoshi Kon

Jesus was not tempted to see if He would fall. He was tempted to show that He could not fall. — J. Vernon McGee

Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course. — Nancy Mitford

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back. — Jon English

This is My Son, the Chosen One; listen to Him. Luke 9:35 — Beth Moore

And that was the voice of Peeta — Suzanne Collins

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed. — Anton Corbijn

It is peculiar to man to love even those who do wrong. And this happens, if when they do wrong it occurs to you that they are fellow humans and that they do wrong through ignorance and unintentionally, and that soon both of you will die; and above all, that the wrongdoer has done you no harm, for he has not made your ruling faculty worse than it was before. — Marcus Aurelius

People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts. — Alan Cohen

This love is thickly plaited. — M. Pierce

That's the problem with this never-ending centipede of lemmings, Beck. You know they're all pussies, each and every one of 'em. They buy these books to get scared because their lives are too easy. How pathetic is that? — Caroline Kepnes