Human Spirit Quotes - Page 16

• The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.

  Wade Davis

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Unique

  "The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World". Book by Wade Davis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 1, 2009.

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• The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Spirit, Madness

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

  Ayn Rand

  Business, Work, Way

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• Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

  Pope John Paul II

  Truth, Wings, Two

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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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• Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

  John Grisham

  Men, Innocent Man, Serial Killer

  John Grisham (2010). “The Confession”, p.104, Random House

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• Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

  Ronald Reagan

  Spirit, Aspiration, Humans

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.

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• But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Dream, Soul, Ears

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• Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Imagination, Literature

  The Hindu, February 26, 1995.

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• It's hard to say what makes the mind piece things together in a sudden lightning flash. I've come to hold the human spirit in the highest regard. Like the body, it struggles to repair itself. As cells fight off infection and conquer illness, the spirit, too, has remarkable resilience. It knows when it is harmed, and it knows she the harm is too much to bear. If it deems the injury too great, the spirit cocoons the wound, in the same fashion that the body forms a cyst around infection, until the time comes that it can deal with it.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Fashion, Struggle, Fighting

  Karen Marie Moning (2009). “Dreamfever: Fever Series”, p.59, Delacorte Press

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• Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

  Walter Lord

  Courage, Men, Skills

  Walter Lord (2012). “Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

  Herbie Hancock

  Compassion, Carpe Diem, Things In Life

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• Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.

  George Nelson

  Design, Cooking, Spirit

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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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• 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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• Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.

  Laura Elliott

  Music, Our World, Play

  "Annie, Between the States". Book by L. M. Elliott, March 31, 2009.

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• When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual systems. By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. It disables a person's emotional resources. The challenge...is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves and to develop the power of forgiveness.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Pain, Emotional

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• Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

  William Shirley

  Reality, Greatness, Soul

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• Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism is a virus which spreads through the body politic. As other "isms," it breeds disorder and demagoguery and hate.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Hate, Anger, People

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• There is an indomitable quality within the human spirit that cannot be destroyed; a face deep within the human personality that is impregnable to all assaults.

  Chester Himes

  Personality, Quality, Faces

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• Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

  Frank Borman

  Discovery, Essence, Spirit

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• Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

  Lorna Goodison

  Prayer, Spirit, Force

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• Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit, we cannot flower and grow without it.

  Jess Lair

  Children, Flower, Support

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