“In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level of contentment be determined by outside factors-a new car, fashionable clothes, a prestigious career, social status-the more we relinquish control over our own happiness.” SocialLevelsCareersEconomyGrowingCarDependsClothesExpectationsDareDeterminedFactorsConsumersRisingContentmentConsumerismFashionableOverconsumptionNew CarSocial StatusPrestigiousGrowing EconomyFashionable Clothes Author:Paul Brand
“At the moment, the 4 percent of us in this country produce a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide - once you look at maps of rising sea levels and spreading mosquitoes, you realize that we've probably never figured out a way to hate our neighbors around the world much more effectively.” WorldWayLooksCountryMomentsHateRealizingLevelsSeaProducePercentNeighborAround The WorldRisingGlobal WarmingMapsQuartersCarbonMosquitoesCarbon Dioxide Author:Bill McKibben
“When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.” MenFeelsHeartChildrenTodayEarthJesusBornLevelsCommonCompassionChristianityFireHigherDiseaseDeterminationHotMiseryHungerHungryBurningLiftsRisingMultitudesHigher LevelCommon ManChristmas DayNew Hope Book:The world is learning compassion Source: The world is learning compassion
“There's a rising level of frustration with the disconnect between where the vast majority of conservatives are in this country and how Congress is behaving. There's going to be a wake-up call sooner or later.” CountryLevelsWake UpMajorityCongressRisingFrustrationSooner Or LaterWake Up Call Author:Pat Toomey
“For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.” ThinkingTwoMightDifferencesLevelsCasesGreatnessGeniusPrivilegeHeightRisingMediocrity Book:Gerard Manley Hopkins: poetry and prose Source: Gerard Manley Hopkins: poetry and prose
“humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.” FeelingsHumorLevelsEmotionFashionBearsBirthOppositesRelationRisingClosestTurmoilWellspring Author:Constance Rourke
“Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.” MindEarthLevelsForeverOur LivesHigherDelightBlissRisingSheerHigher Level Book:Divine Providence Source: Divine Providence
“Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.” HumansAgeLastsStarsWaterLevelsSunDemocracyPrideSpreadSettingSettingsHeatChampionRisingRemarkableMelancholyTidesHeroismMagnificentAlasOblivionFlickerDandyism Author:Charles Baudelaire
“Without sounding too grandiose, the survival of the planet itself is at stake, you have rising sea levels, acidification of the oceans, immigration sparked by climate change, droughts that are much more severe.” ChangeLevelsSeaPlanetsOceanSurvivalClimateClimate ChangeImmigrationRisingStakesSevereDroughtGrandiose Author:Laurent Fabius
“Much of the attention on oceans has portrayed oceans as a villain. Warm water strengthened Hurricane Katrina that pounded Louisiana. Rising sea level will flood islands and coastal areas. Or, we're talking about new opportunities like a new shipping lane in the Arctic because of melting sea ice. These may be the obvious problems, but they're probably not the biggest ones.” MayProblemOpportunityWaterLevelsAttentionTalkingSeaOceanAreasObviousWarmIceIslandsRisingVillainFloodHurricanesMeltingLanesLouisianaArcticKatrinaNew OpportunityShippingHurricane KatrinaCoastal Author:Mark Powell
“Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.” FeelsTryingMindLife IsEasyUnderstandingDecisionLevelsFocusWorstToughRisingAmbivalenceTough DecisionsSatoriTrusting Again Author:Martha Beck