..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.
Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.
At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.
Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.
In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.
I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
In novels, I said, people are transfigured by love. They’re elevated, made different, lifted out of their ordinariness…It’s not so much to ask, I said. I just want love to live up to its publicity.
Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.
As our heart soars, we fly with it! Let love take you places!
Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
When a certain piece of music penetrates a person, a resonance is set in motion and an inner voice says: "I like this resonance. It elevates me. It develops hitherto unknown possibilities in me. I don't recognize myself. This is very interesting.
Poetry is the deification of reality.
The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine.
Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.
Un homme n'a jamais pu e lever sa ma:"tresse jusqu'a' lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A man can never elevate his mistress to his rank, but a woman can always place her lover as high as she.
Love lift us up where we belong.
Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can't be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that's always good.
Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road.
Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.
I can sing the saddest song with a bunch of people, and the feeling of sharing that energy activates in a way that either heals it or makes me feel like I've risen a thousand miles above it into space, and I'm staring down on it as a little dot.
a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.
Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.
I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace.
Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.
Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.
