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In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up. -- Swami Vivekananda
Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit. -- Alexander Whyte
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck. -- Chinua Achebe
We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution. -- Ted Cruz
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. -- Joseph Addison
All the sins of your life seem to be rising up against you. Don't give up hope! On the contrary, call your holy mother Mary, with the faith and abandonment of a child. She will bring peace to your soul. -- Josemaria Escriva
There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine... This is a time of monumental shift, from the male dominance of human consciousness back to a balanced relationship between masculine and feminine. -- Marianne Williamson
She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . . I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears are rising up in me so that everything I do makes everything worse. -- Marilynne Robinson
Oft in the silence of the night, When the lonely moon rides high, When wintry winds are whistling, And we hear the owl's shrill cry, In the quiet, dusky chamber, By the flickering firelight, Rising up between two sleepers, Comes a spirit all in white. -- Louisa May Alcott
So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke rising up the air and dissipating on a breeze. -- Charles Frazier
Let's ask the Lord to give us a Jubilee strategy for this nation! Below, I have an article related to the Freedom Fighters and Triumphant Reserve that the Spirit of the Lord is rising up in days ahead. That is why we need Apostolic Hubs (Freedom Outposts). -- Chuck Pierce
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing! -- Pat Riley
[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this or that civilisation but from what we can judge to-day of any civilisation. ...[T]he type of man dominant to-day is a primitive one, a Naturmensch rising up in the midst of a civilised world. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth grew higher, rising up beyond the clouds, while the valleys of poverty sank lower into perpetual shadow. The once broad plateau of the middle class eroded away into a narrow ledge, with the white-knuckled occupants holding on for dear life. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by means of the mind. The only way of doing it is to find its source and hold on to it. The mind will then fade away of its own accord. -- Ramana Maharshi
The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering all over and then I would feel it rising up in me again, and the glittering white torture chamber tiles under my feet and over my head and all four sides closed in and squeezed me to pieces. -- Sylvia Plath
If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Gold and silver and sunshine is rising up -- Noel Gallagher
I woke up this morning, smiled at the rising sun. -- Bob Marley
when it seems like giving up, then it seems like rising up -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope. -- Mason Cooley
...just shattered structures rising up like rotten teeth from a diseased jaw. -- Robert R. McCammon
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
With 'Hunger Games,' it's about people rising up to fight against a corrupt government that controls them. -- Woody Harrelson
I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench. -- Satchel Paige
Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices. -- Lester R. Brown
Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God. -- John Calvin
If rising makes you famous, don't give up rising, but find a safe port where you can be unreachable! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections. -- Virginia Woolf
I woke up this morning, Smiled at the rising sun, Three little birds, Sat on my doorstep, Singing sweet songs -- Bob Marley
Let every sunrise be a reminder of your ability to ascend from the darkness by rising up and shining your light. -- LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier
In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.' -- Marcus Aurelius
Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world. -- Bonnie Raitt
Today, as chief Of the guardians of the seas Of the land of the dawn, I gaze up with awe At the rising sun! -- Isoroku Yamamoto
Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting. -- Jeff Bezos
The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall. -- Thomas Adams
Having started and owned two small businesses, I know what a challenge it is to keep up with the rising costs of your employees' healthcare premiums. -- Chellie Pingree
Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America. -- David Cameron
Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm. -- Bill Gates
The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore. -- Ali Shaheed Muhammad
The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment? -- Ivan Turgenev
Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit -- Queen Elizabeth II

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