Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.
I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of.
I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Donald Trump has taken the Peter Principle to unprecedented heights. Or is it depths?
Art is a window to The Infinite, and opening to the goddess, a portal through which you and I, with the help of the artist, may discover depths and heights of our soul undreamed of by the vulgar world. Art is the eye of the spirit, through which the sublime can reach down to us, and we up to it, and be transformed, transfigured in the process.
The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.
Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness of the higher values of life and would be tempted to bring them down into practical life and live them.
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species.
Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivalled heights.
The depths of the self are the heights of God.
Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks. For man is happy only in His aspiration to the heights; When he attains his goal, he cools And longs for other distant flights.
It stands in the light transfigured, It speaks from the heights above, "Each Soul Is Its Own Redeemer; There Is No Law But Love. "
I'm still pretty terrified of heights.
I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.