Human Spirit Quotes - Page 15

• And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.

  Barry McGuire

  Night, Reality, Afterlife

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• Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Expression, Spirit

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.1, Zondervan

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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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• David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking.

  Brad Listi

  Essence, Heartbreaking, Stories

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• Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Suffering, Want

  "Somerset Maugham". 1982.

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• The notebooks of Paul Brunton represent the acme of wisdom on the nature of human spirituality. Every serious student of this subject will profit enormously by becoming acquainted with Brunton's seminal work.

  Kenneth Ring

  Notebook, Becoming, Serious

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• Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue?

  John Denver

  Issues, World, Might

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• That is the way convince people. Or change them and prevent them from hurting whether themselves and others. Art is the most effective form of communication.
  You can use it to lift the human spirit and make them understand that there is more to life than their next drug use.

  Jennifer Echols

  Art, Hurt, Communication

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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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• The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Creativity, Routine, Spirit

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• People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

  John Guare

  Beautiful, People, Cost

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• Liberty is not about class war, income war, race war, national war, a war between the sexes, or any other conflict apart from the core conflict between individuals and those who would seek power and control over the human spirit. Liberty is the dream that we can all work together, in ways of our choosing and of our own human volition, to realize a better life.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Dream, Sex, War

  FaceBook post by Jeffrey A. Tucker from Jun 03, 2014

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• The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit.

  Steven Callahan

  Maturity, Sea, Growth

  Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

  Stephen Hawking

  Running, Different, Spirit

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• Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

  Dorothea Lange

  Spirit, Humans

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• Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Believe, Mean

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.

  Adora Svitak

  Children, Fun, Thinking

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• Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What we ordinarily speak of as materialism is a result, not a cause. The root of materialism is a poverty of ideas about the inner and the outer world. Less and less does our contemporary culture have, or even seek, commerce with great ideas, and it is that lack that is weakening the human spirit. This is the essence of materialism. Materialism is a disease of the mind starved for ideas.

  Jacob Needleman

  Our World, Essence, Ideas

  Jacob Needleman (2003). “The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders”, p.16, Penguin

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• No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Christian, Religious

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.51, Discovery House

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• You have to, in some ways, trust in the human spirit and in human ingenuity.

  Ariel Garten

  Way, Spirit, Ingenuity

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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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• Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  Pope John Paul II (1998). “Faith and Reason: Encyclical Letter Fides Et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Relationship Between Faith and Reason”

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• It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.

  Jack Kerouac

  Winning, Spirit, Humans

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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• How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that which is not obvious, which can neither be seen nor heard? I believe the exploration and enrichment of the human spirit is what determines our very humanity. Such enrichment provides an inner compass that can lead civilizations to greatness.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Karma, Believe, Greatness

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• Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed.

  Hizkias Assefa

  Ignorance, Profound, Justice

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