There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue".
Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.
No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -
We make a goddess of Fortune. . . and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.
We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.
At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.
For every force charged by God, may He be exalted, with some business is an angel put in charge.
The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness. So always strive for that. Set your life around that goal. Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours.
There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.
Awake! Arise! And be exalted! Make your life a success!.
To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.
I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach.
I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.
It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings. . . without the constant companionship of the Spirit of God.
The life of Christ was a life of humble simplicity, yet how infinitely exalted was his mission. Christ is our example in all things.
Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.
Holy Scripture is so exalted that there is no one in the world. . . wise enough to understand it so fully that his intellect is not overcome by it. Nevertheless, man can stammer something about it.
Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or to the most exalted position of an Avatâra, or to the greatness of a hero in material discoveries.
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.