Spirit Quotes - Page 13

• A mouse is small and can go unnoticed: but there is no limit to what a brave heart and a fearless spirit can achieve.

  Brian Jacques

  Heart, Brave, Fearless

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• I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.

  Jean Craighead George

  Wind, Medicine, Air

  Jean Craighead George (1990). “On the far side of the mountain”

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• At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris of historical trauma, family trauma, you know, stuff that can kill your spirit, is actually raw material to make things with and to build a bridge. You can use those materials to build a bridge over that which would destroy you.

  Joy Harjo

  Bridges, Historical, Stuff

  "Joy Harjo's 'Crazy Brave' Path To Finding Her Voice". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. July 9, 2012.

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• It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we've had to witness such atrocities because of religion. Flying the flag of religion has always proved the easiest way to crush to nothingness human beings as well as the spirit of humanity.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Crush, Names, Flying

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• Whatever you want, especially when you’re striving to be the best in the world at something, there’ll always be disappointments, and you can’t be emotionally tied to them, cos’ they’ll break your spirit.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Disappointment, Fear

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• There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blonds to black-skinned Africans. But we were all participating in the same ritual, displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood that my experiences in America had led me to believe never could exist between the white and non-white.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, White, America

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Alex Haley and Malcolm X, New York: The Random House Publishing Group. p. 390, 1965.

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• Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love.

  Napoleon Hill

  Way, Success In Life, Found

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• If the philosophy of Christianity were lived, wars would cease, unhappiness would cease, economic problems would be solved, poverty would be wiped from the face of the earth, and man's inhumanity to man would be transmuted into a spirit of mutual helpfulness.

  Ernest Holmes

  War, Philosophy, Men

  Ernest Holmes (1984). “Living the Science of Mind: The Only Writings by the Founder of SCIENCE OF MIND to Help You Understand His Classic Textbook”, p.31, DeVorss & Company

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• Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.

  Dale Carnegie

  Flower, Sunshine, Wind

  Dale Carnegie (1982). “How To Win Friends And Influence People”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling

  Audre Lorde

  Beautiful, Creativity, Dark

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.36, Crossing Press

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• And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I failed to recognize. Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same.

  Philip Pullman

  Life Is Hard, Doubt, Found

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).

  Antonio Gramsci

  Revolution, Creation, Violent

  "Selections from the Prison Notebooks". Book by Antonio Gramsci, 1971.

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• Desire, when it stems from the heart and spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy. This energy is released into the ether each night, as the mind falls into the sleep state. Each morning it returns to the conscious state reinforced with the cosmic currents. That which has been imaged will surely and certainly be manifested. You can rely, young man, upon this ageless promise as surely as you can rely upon the eternally unbroken promise of sunrise... and of Spring.

  Abdul Kalam

  Morning, Spring, Fall

  "Wings of Fire: An Autobiography".

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• Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

  Abdul Kalam

  Leadership, Creativity, Young Generation

  Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (0101). “Enlightened Minds”, p.34, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God.

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  Country, Real, Humanity

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• Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made to act upon itself makes of man a God. First, let us be Gods, and then help other to be GOds. Be and Make. Let this be our motto.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Helping Others, Men, Matter

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1746, Manonmani Publishers

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• This little separate self must die. Then we shall find that we are in the Real, and that Real is God, and He is our own true nature, and He is always in us and with us. Let us live in Him and stand in Him. It is the only joyful state of existence. Life on the plane of the Spirit is the only life, and let us all try to attain to this realization.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Self, Trying

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.77, editionNEXT.com

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• When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of his Holy Spirit.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Prayer, Moving, Heart

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• It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

  Richard Baxter

  Understanding, Storm, Sound

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• See here, for our comfort, a sweet agreement of all three persons: the Father giveth a commission to Christ; the Spirit furnisheth and sanctifieth to it; Christ himself executeth the office of a Mediator. Our redemption is founded upon the joint agreement of all three persons of the Trinity.

  Richard Sibbes

  Sweet, Father, Agreement

  Richard Sibbes (1838). “I. The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax. II. A Fountain Sealed. III. A Description of Christ”, p.16

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• Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the Eternal. Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents Spirit to Spirit, is properly a Clothing, a suit of Raiment, put on for a season, and to be laid off. Thus in this one pregnant subject of CLOTHES, rightly understood, is included all that men have thought, dreamed, done, and been: the whole External Universe and what it holds is but Clothing; and the essence of all Science lies in the PHILOSOPHY OF CLOTHES.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Philosophy, Lying, Men

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.58, Cambridge University Press

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• I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. These beings have spoken to me, touched me, and I have been rewarded by friendship with many members of different species. If the whales survive and flourish, if the seals continue to live and give birth, and if I can contribute to ensuring their future prosperity, I will be forever happy.

  Paul Watson

  Whales, Giving, Forever

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• We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer. And we need to pray earnestly for the power of the Holy Spirit to give us a precious revival in our hearts and among the unconverted.

  Robert E. Lee

  Heart, Giving, Needs

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• There are things in the Old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.

  Robert E. Lee

  Book, Teaching, May

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• Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Garden, Insulting, Hollywood

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.646, e-artnow

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