“I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes,
Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour.”

“Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

“I lift my heart as spring lifts up
A yellow daisy to the rain;
My heart will be a lovely cup
Altho' it holds but pain.

For I shall learn from flower and leaf
That color every drop they hold,
To change the lifeless wine of grief
To living gold.”

Sara Teasdale Rivers to the Sea

“My understanding was lifted up into Heaven, and there I saw three heavens: of which sight I marvelled greatly. And though I see three heavens — and all in the blessed manhood of Christ — none is more, none is less, none is higher, none is lower, but even-like in bliss.”

Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor

“Here a little child I stand
Heaving up my either hand.
Cold as paddocks though they be,
Here I lift them up to Thee,
For a benison to fall
On our meat, and on us all.”

Robert Herrick (1591–1674) 17th-century English poet and cleric

“I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

“In the spiritual energy that relieves
The anguish of beings in misery and
Places depressed beings in eternal joy
I lift up my heart and rejoice.”

Šantidéva (685–763) 8th-century Indian Buddhist monk and scholar

“There is no escape — man drags man down, or man lifts man up.”

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor

“Strong people don't put others down, they lift them up.”

Ralph Smart