Spirit Quotes

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...

I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly-line worker, ...

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is slugg...

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated sp...

My spirit. This is a new thought. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I'm a fighter....

A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a...

We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult becau...

To you who are parents, I say, show love to your children. You know you love them, but make certain ...

We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hyp...

To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.

You are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they ...

But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged ...

Religion is boring and alien to me and relates no more than a chimera to what is to me the reality o...

The way through the worldIs more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

…having once seen him put forth his strength in battle, methinks I could know him again among a thou...

…having once seen him put forth his strength in battle, methinks I could know him again among a thou...

And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive i...

The soul, in its loneliness, hopes only for "salvation." And yet what is the burden of the Bible if ...

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be deni...

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guard...

I've heard my teacher say, where there are machines, there are bound to be machine worries; where th...

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sus...

My spirit will rise from the grave and the world will see i was right.

don't let what other people think, stop you from doing the things you love

Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offer...

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

My religiosity consists of a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit who reveals himself...

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself i...

Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man dev...

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed ...

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how m...

There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.

Every day, bring some flowers to your life. Every day bring some blessings in someone’s life.

A compassionate heart radiates rays of beauty that remove the clouds of million hearts.

Yoga is bringing fitness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.

Yoga is the process of eliminating pain – pain form the body, mind and the society.

We can see Spirit made visible when people are kind to one another, especially when it's a really bu...

What you're looking for is already inside you. You've heard this before, but the holy thing inside y...

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

It is winter proper; the cold weather, such as it is, has come to stay. I bloom indoors in the winte...

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

I watch the running sheets of light raised on the creek surface. The sight has the appeal of the pur...

Oh, it’s mysterious lamplit evenings, here in the galaxy, one after the other. It’s one of those nig...

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

The remarkable thing about the world of insects, however, is precisely that there is no veil cast ov...

In the great meteor shower of August, the Perseid, I wail all day for the shooting stars I miss. The...

Ivanov: With a heavy head, with a slothful spirit, exhausted, overstretched, broken, without faith, ...

Oh! Science! Everything has been revised. For the body and for the soul,--the viaticum,—there are me...

Spirit? Who is that fellow? And where do you know him from? Is he perhaps not merely an arbitrary an...

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colo...

this is the 21st century and we need to redefine r/evolution. this planet needs a people’s r/evoluti...

Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost; a w...

Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of ...

In Galapagos, as elsewhere, things of the mind, including intellectual ramifications from evolutiona...

When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our gro...

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when th...

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit...

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revo...

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives u...

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is ...

Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, b...

Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su es...

The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded...

But why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?""It is required of every man," the Gh...

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human l...

The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and...

The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It i...

There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universa...

There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo...

Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it...

The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them i...