Quotes & Sayings About Soaring To Great Heights

Hitch hiked a thousand
miles and brought
You wine — Jack Kerouac

I find myself thinking back to something I saw on the local news about a year ago. A teen football player had died in a car accident. The cameras showed all his friends after the funeral - these big hulking guys, all in tears, saying, "I loved him. We all loved him so much." I started crying, too, and I wondered if these guys had told the football player they loved him while he was alive, or whether it was only with death that this strange word, love, could be used. I vowed then and there that I would never hesitate to speak up to the people I loved. They deserved to know they gave meaning to my life. They deserved to know I thought the world of them. — David Levithan

From my own childhood I remember only a handful of incidents, all of which I regarded as momentous, but which I now understand were a few events among many, which completely expunges their meaning, for how can I know that those particular episodes that lodged themselves in my mind were decisive, and not all the others of which I remember nothing? — Karl Ove Knausgard

And I strongly believe people should rescue dogs, or, at the very least, listen to Bob Barker and have your pet spayed or neutered. — Justin Chambers

You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business. — Steve Harvey

boy Make believe he had a toy? That's the way Babies play; Babies who are young and small Make believe they play at ball! — Various

Saying "I love you" makes a demand, but creates no obligations. — Mason Cooley

True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up. — Sheri Dew

Have I, have you, been too silent? Is there an easy crime of silence? — Carl Sandburg

Ecstasy, I think, is a soul's response to the waves holiness makes as it nears. — Annie Dillard

A great difference between May and Day is the M and D! Be a good Managing Director of your life each day in May. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

As for the doctor's mind, though intelligent and certainly well-meaning, it was a jumble of intellectual artifacts even more confusing than all the gadgets, appliances, and coneniences that filled the ship. These latter Shevek found entertaining; everything was so lavish, stylish, and inventive; but the furniture of Kimoe's intellect he did not find so comfortable. Kimoe's ideas never seemed to be able to go in a straight line; they had to walk around this and avoid that. There were walls around all his thoughts, and he seemed utterly unaware of them, though he was perpetually hiding behind them. — Ursula K. Le Guin

There may come a time at last that I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
East of the moon west of the sun. — J.R.R. Tolkien