Spirit Quotes

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form...

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial l...

There are those of poor spirit and there are those of great spirit. None are without it but the flam...

Every day the choice is presented to us, in a thousand different ways, to live up to the spirit whic...

When a desperate, hungry spirit appears and makes the guinea pigs squeal it is because he knows wher...

We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of ...

I understand you well. Now we have no need to dispute: you are awake, and so you have seen the diffe...

Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook,The longing of the spirit can never be...

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities ...

Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world.

Romanticism embodied "a new and restless spirit, seeking violently to burst through old and cramping...

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor...

When you are at a loss of words then go with your feelings. If you feel nothing you must rely on you...

My innocence is not lost—it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call "breaking" is the ...

Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.

Self is that which dies...Spirit is that which lives...forever.

What you feed in yourself that grows.

You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never learn to know the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in ...

O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou m...

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

When the organization called soul is free, moving and operative, initial as well as terminal, it is ...

the true knowledge is disciplined and tested knowledge,—not the first thought that comes, so the tru...

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears.

To explain this a little further: Only the soul and the body are the natural constituent parts of me...

The monks' response was to climb into their curraghs and row off toward Greenland. They were drawn a...

A poor man is not disposed to quick and high resentment when he is among the rich: he is apt to yiel...

We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, a...

The spirit gone, man is garbage.

A panther poised in the cypress tree about to jump is apanther poised in a cypress tree about to jum...

The point of the overall meditative path is to have Wakefulness (or Consciousness as Such) transcend...

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

I was aware of something stable in his nature. Ha game me a feeling of security, as if nothing I sai...

Highly evolved people have their own conscience as pure law.

People up today and down tomorrow, working this week and fired the next, beaten and baffled, but det...

Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some ...

Then he had looked on his spirit as his I; now, it was his healthy strong animal I that he looked up...

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one — in me, and in you, and in him. So that if everyone be...

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

Lords of spirit, Lords of breath,Lords of fireflies, stars, and light,Who will keep the world from d...

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires ...

For even if we have the sensation of being always surrounded by our own soul, it is not as though by...

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the end...

The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only...

The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the pau...

Asking the question of being is one of the essential and fundamental conditions for the awakening of...

The spiritual world of a Volk is not its cultural superstructure, just as little as it is its arsena...

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to unde...

But, even granted that doubts, raised in the course of time against the tenants of the Christian fai...

Each day we live is a glass roomUntil we break it with the thrustingOf the spirit and pass throughTh...

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

My funeral," the Blue Man said. "Look at the mourners. Some did not even know me well, yet they came...

The desire for sexual expression is inborn and natural. The desire cannot, and should not be submerg...

And as for Owen Warland, he looked placidly at what seemed the ruin of his life's labor, and which w...

It was no wonder that they thus questioned one another's actual and bodily existence, and even doubt...

Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!

Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is ...

With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill wit...

but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysicaldilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do yo...

I understood that the law of the world was strife; an inexorable, murderous law, which was not conte...

Everything she heard, everything she saw seemed to be in disagreement with her own manner of underst...

The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

SpyThough at the moment I am a prisoner, my spirit remains free. While everyone is fighting a never-...

The challenge of elucidating living processes -- including consciousness and all its baggage which w...

Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives ...

So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the le...

Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by co...

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyon...

Spirit. In every language in all the Realms, surface and Underdark, in every time and every place, t...

In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal...

To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly i...

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child in repressing his spirits and courage, p...

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature say...

The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene ...

What matters most:"What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the...

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.

Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply...

The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea an...

The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea an...

The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea an...

The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea an...

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity,

... Man is not truly one, but truly two... even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only...

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through h...

The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make...

From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifti...

And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a b

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", Decemb...

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, ...

We were made to get along, to be together, andit’s a truth that’s medically attested... Love and dan...