Quotes About Spirit

Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!

Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe.

As my father wrote, one's courage, hope, and spirit can be severely tried by the happenstance of life. But as I learned on this Virginia mountain, so long as one never loses faith, it is impossible to ever truly be alone.

Nothing tamed or broke her, nothing touched her, neither kindness, nor scorn, nor hatred, nor love. She had never thought of prayer. It was unimaginable that she would ever bend her knees and come crawling along a dusty floor to anybody's altar.

Spirits of the pure, ye sacred flock, come forth from the hidden places, come on the surface of the luminous waves! The hour now is; come, assemble! Let us sing at the gates of the Sanctuary; our songs shall drive away the final clouds.

The Spirit of Love has acquired strength, the result of all vanquished terrestrial passions.

Thus man himself offers sufficient proof of the two orders--Matter and Spirit. In him culminates a visible finite universe; in him begins a universe invisible and infinite.

Know this for certain—methods are always confounded with results; you will never succeed in separating the soul from the senses, spirit from matter.

El hambre nocturna es un espíritu maligno que actúa independientemente de la personalidad de cada uno.

Thanks so much for seeing, the first time you met us, that even though we're like ghosts, the two of us, even though we're not supposed to exist, we are alive.

His smile was so bright as he stood in my doorstep that I zoomed in for a closeup on his pupils. I couldn't take my eyes off him. I think I heard a spirit call my name.

Nel vivere ci sono davvero tanti significati, e una quantità incredibile di scene, più numerose delle stelle, tante da non poterle ricordare a una a una, inonda il mio spirito, però mai più cercherò di attribuire alla vita dei significati, mai più cadrò in errore così brutto e meschino

Pensai: ecco, se dopo la morte il mio spirito tornasse sulla terra in una sera d'estate, è così che il mondo mi apparirebbe.

Descubrí que el cuerpo es un mero recipiente en el momento en que el alma deja de mirarte

If Dad's spirit needed pacifying, well, this life would have to be enough. It was the truest prayer I had to offer. Since what happened with Dad, we'd stopped wasting our lives, wasting time. We'd given up thinking about things as though we understood them, or even as though we could, and committed to living our days like a continuous length of thread we were each spinning.

Il corpo continua a vivere anche se l'anima è morta.

I grandi personaggi nel loro semplice esistere emettono luce e rischiarano lo spirito di chi sta loro accanto. Così, quando si spengono, inevitabilmente scende un'ombra pesante.

To live 'mongst lush and growing things Is like to give the spirit wings.

The girls? We sacrificed them to the water spirit, sir. We used their bodies as an offering. They cried and carried on like crazy." Kien's scouts drew their bayonets. Lien held them back. "Stop! Don't. Perhaps these guys might also want to cry like crazy as the girls did before they died. They won't want to die immediately, will they?

Let yourself flow free with the dance of your life.

am almost ashamed to be living in such peace while all the rest struggle and suffer. But, after all, it is still best to concern oneself with eternals, for from them alone flows that spirit that can restore peace and serenity to the world of humans - Albert Einstein, Princeton, New Jersey

I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version, there were no formulas, no set phrases that promised us safe passage across the abyss. There was only our tattered trust that the Spirit who had given us life would not leave us in the wilderness without offering us life again.

Human beings may separate things into as many piles as we wish—separating spirit from flesh, sacred from secular, church from world. But we should not be surprised when God does not recognize the distinctions we make between the two.

Is it possible for a ghost to have a baby?