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“The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled and it will be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven-only you. It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this is not yet listening.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.'”
Tommy Cooper
“Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.”
William Bernbach
“He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for ME.”
Mitch Hedberg
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
Booker T. Washington
“A rising tide lifts all boats”
Proverb
“I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.”
Charles de Gaulle
“When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman”
Jean de la Bruyere
