Rise Quotes

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.

You gave me the courage to rise but my darling robin why did you fly leaving me behind these four walls all alone?

If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.

The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.

I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.

Where the sun sets, love rises!

We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.

We too can rise up, We too can float like lanterns To a better place.

When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty. Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth.