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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
Uplifting

"Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse."

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Walt Disney Animator, Film Producer
Uplifting

"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."

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Martha Graham Dancer, choreographer
Uplifting

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique."

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Jesse Dylan Director
Uplifting

"When ypu awaken love and laughter in your life, your mind lets go of fear and anxiety, and your happy spirit becomes the healing balm that transforms every aspect of your human experience."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Uplifting

"Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Uplifting

"If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young."

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Laozi Philosopher
Uplifting

"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

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