Human Spirit Quotes - Page 14

• To look at infidelity from the point of view of sex is a complete narrowing of the phenomenon. There's a reason that the commandment is repeated twice in the Bible - once for doing it and once for thinking about it. We have always created structures and broken structures. It is essential to the human spirit.

  Esther Perel

  Thinking, Broken, Infidelity

  Source: wbur.org

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• Some sort of creativity is within everybody; I think that's just a part of the human spirit. I think there's no human being on earth who is not creative in some way, because I think it's just a part of our genetic makeup.

  Audra McDonald

  Creativity, Thinking, Makeup

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.

  Haniel Long

  Desert, Incentives, May

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.

  Robert Fritz

  Spirit, Compromise, Humans

  Robert Fritz (2014). “The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life”, p.167, Butterworth-Heinemann

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• The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.

  Dean Mitchell

  Art, Self, Spirit

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• Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend. There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, "I do enjoy myself", or , "I am horrified," we are insincere.

  E. M. Forster

  Pain, Book, Interesting

  'A Passage to India' (1924) ch. 14

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• A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.

  Edward Sapir

  Expression, World, Spirit

  Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.282, Walter de Gruyter

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• Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.

  Cassius Jackson Keyser

  Way, Spirit, Infinite

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• As we, the world, and the way we live have become more complex, we've moved further away from living in alignment with our human spirit and with the earth.

  Lauren Mackler

  Humanity, World, Earth

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• I am now a fundamentalist American; give me time and I will tell you why individualism, laissez-faire and the slightly restrained anarchy of capitalism offer the best opportunities for the development of the human spirit.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Opportunity, Giving, Laissez Faire Capitalism

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• The greatest love of all is happening to me.. So goes the popular song. It's a great song. It speaks to the heart, and deeply. It strikes powerfully to uplift the human spirit, at the quest for self-love and self-esteem, the pride in being alive that each of us is entitled to experience simply by being born a human being.

  Robert J. White

  Uplifting, Song, Self Esteem

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• Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Soul, Mind, Tangible

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• Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

  David Mamet

  Ideas, Matter, Spirit

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• I believe in the human spirit. And usually the people who are following me - my fans and things like that - are like-minded people, in that regard. They like to hear about people being in pain, but that are okay, and people feeling like they can't go on, but then they find a reason to go on. How do you marry someone and love them, and then they die? How does that happen? Why are we on this journey? They want to talk about things, and they want to understand. So, this is the perfect vehicle for that.

  J.H. Wyman

  Pain, Believe, Journey

  Source: collider.com

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• Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.

  Joan Lindsay

  Hate, War, Dark

  Joan Lindsay (1977). “Picnic at Hanging Rock”, Viking Pr

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• A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders, our contradictions, our endless quest for understanding. Good stories do not resolve the mysteries of the human spirit but rather describe and expand up on those mysteries.

  Tim O'Brien

  Dream, Struggle, Views

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• History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

  Benedetto Croce

  Essentials, Spirit, Humans

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• The principal hindrance to the advancement of the kingdom of God is greed. It is the chief obstacle to heaven-sent revival. It seems that when the back of greed is broken, the human spirit soars into regions of unselfishness. I believe that it is safe to say there can be no continuous revival without 'hilarious' giving. And I fear no contradiction: wherever there is 'hilarious' giving there will soon be revival!

  O. S. Hawkins

  Believe, Heaven Sent, Giving

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• The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.

  James Joll

  Independence, Example, Spirit

  James Joll (1978). “Antonio Gramsci”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Years, Three

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's watch upon the world and on themselves.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Book, Men, Watches

  1941 A Time to Speak,'Of the Librarian's Profession'.

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• A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Agents, Dozen, Spirit

  "Sunset Boulevard", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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• Liberalism is a scourge. It destroys the human spirit. It destroys prosperity. It assigns sameness to everybody. And wherever I find it, I oppose it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Spirit, Prosperity, Liberalism

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• In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.

  Simone Weil

  Stars, Lying, Moon

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.121, Psychology Press

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• What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

  Sherry Turkle

  Technology, Spirit, Easy

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