Spirit Quotes - Page 23

• You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

  Freya Stark

  Wise, Art, Travel

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• In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possibilities of our remarkable country. I refuse to accept the downsizing of the American Dream. I refuse to bet against American entrepreneurial spirit and American ingenuity.The competition's tough, and it requires us to be tougher - tough-minded, never hard hearted.

  John F. Kerry

  Dream, Country, Believe

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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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• Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not in some way close the path of glory.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Dancing, Ballet, Way

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• Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored.

  Sarah Kernochan

  Karma, Bones, Ends

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• Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit.

  Danitra Vance

  Survival, Triumph, Body

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• The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. . . . It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirits, the pit at the center, and rising hope.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Life, Pain, Fall

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• I confess that there is nothing to teach: no religion, no science, no writings which will lead your mind back to Spirit. Today I speak this way, tomorrow that, but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.

  Laozi

  Life Lesson, Writing, Deep Life

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• If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought: if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate... and marvels will be performed.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Men, Air

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.121, Vintage

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• I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. But man is not ready for adventure unless he is rid of fear. For fear confines him and limits his scope. He stays tethered by strings of doubt and indecision and has only a small and narrow world to explore.

  William O. Douglas

  Adventure, Men, Richness Of Life

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• I think the Tata Group's greatest contribution to the growth of the Indian economy and Indian industry probably happened in the pre-independence era. The Group's investments in industries such as steel, textiles, power and hotels were certainly driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, but they were driven even more, I think, by a desire to make India self-sufficient and independent of its colonial masters then.

  Ratan Tata

  Independent, Thinking, Self

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• Working in the context of ultra-famous brands like Dior and Vuitton, creative spirits are always going to feel reined in. It's important that they are free to develop ideas. And rather than detracting from the principal job, it reinforces it. I think of that money as venture capital. It's not a big investment.

  Bernard Arnault

  Leadership, Jobs, Freedom

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• Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age.

  John Legend

  Passion, Artist, Emotional

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Faith, Individuality, Religion

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• In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.

  Jean Paul

  Life, Teacher, Character

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• Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away from the truth and deliverance. . . . Yet ignorance is so far from breaking the despair or changing despair to nondespairing that it can in fact be the most dangerous form of despair. . . . An individual is furthest from being conscious of himself as spirit when he is ignorant of being in despair. But precisely this-not to be conscious of oneself as spirit-is despair, which is spiritlessness. . . .

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Ignorance, Negativity, Individuality

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• The spirit of gratitude is always pleasant and satisfying because it carries with it a sense of helpfulness to others; it begets love and friendship, and engenders divine influence. Gratitude is said to be the memory of the heart.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Gratitude, Memories, Heart

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• One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

  Rita Dove

  Community, Gone, Definitions

  Rita Dove, Earl G. Ingersoll (2003). “Conversations with Rita Dove”, p.146, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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• "What the hell'd you let them break your spirit for?" You know, their lives ran in circles so small. Ah, they thought they'd seen it all. And they could not make a place for a girl who'd seen the ocean.

  Michelle Shocked

  Girl, Ocean, Circles

  Song: Memories of East Texas, Album: Short Sharp Shocked

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• There are certain things in which one is unable to believe for the simple reason that he never ceases to feel them. Things of this sort - things which are always inside of us and in fact are us and which consequently will not be pushed off or away where we can begin thinking about them - are no longer things; they, and the us which they are, equals A Verb; an IS.

  e. e. cummings

  Life, Believe, Simple

  E.E. Cummings (2015). “The Enormous Room”, p.162, Xist Publishing

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• Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.

  Zoroaster

  Life, Wise, Two

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• Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible for what we create, and we must therefore learn to act and think with love and wisdom and live in service to others and all life.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Thinking, Goal

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.283, Harmony

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• From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace; and in the darkest hours of my career in slavery, this living word of faith and spirit of hope departed not from me, but remained like ministering angels to cheer me through the gloom. This good spirit was from God, and to him I offer thanksgiving and praise.

  Frederick Douglass

  Cheer, Angel, Careers

  Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison (1849). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave”, p.31

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• I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!

  Frederick Douglass

  Eye, Dark, Night

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave”, p.60, Xist Publishing

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