Quotes about Elation
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.
- Henri Matisse
If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.
- Michelangelo
So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.
- Philippians 2:18
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
- Henri Matisse
On the emotional and mental levels, laughter not only diffuses negative thoughts and emotions, it also produces positive emotions like hope and elation and allows us to create new, more optimistic perspectives on our circumstances.
- Kris Vallotton
Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So
- Carl Sagan
His love is never, never, never based on our performance, never conditioned by our moods—of elation or depression. The furious love of God knows no shadow of alteration or change.
- Brennan Manning
It stops and gasps at beauty and is bathed in it. And sometimes it begins to weep.
- Anne Lamott
For a moment I had felt elation as on the instant of waking before one remembers.
- Graham Greene
The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.
- Charles Spurgeon
As recently as a week ago, in the Director's office, he had imagined himself courageously resisting, stoically accepting suffering without a word. The Director's threats had actually elated him, made him feel larger than life.
- Aldous Huxley