Quotes About Spirit

When I began looking into the Carter catalog and came across 'Will My Mother Know Me There,' it seemed like such a joyful number and such a song of the spirit that I could hear them all singing it together.

I'd like to live on horseback and just be a cowboy.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.

When we make time to respond to Jesus' invitation to go away with him to a quiet place, we can crack-proof our spirits, making them strong and rendering us ready to handle life.

In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'

I had never felt so alone. I was in the deadlands, the limbo where souls wander nameless and formless, unable to speak or to touch. And in that blind silence I knew it was not the nature of death that frightened me; it was what lay beyond, not Heaven, not Hell, but spirit without a form, without a place to be. I would be nowhere. I would be nothing. [Chapter 26]

Sky above, earth below, fire within.

Love knows no right or wrong. Love is. Only is.

One thing Genevieve had learned was that the people you loved were never lost. They became a permanent part of your soul.

Who can say what the dead do or do not know? Perhaps the knowledge of one's death, ceaselessly swallowed, is the very food you need to become a ghost.

Look for the exceptions to the rule--and let these rule your spirit.

She doesn't like most people," Lily said as she pulled open the bedroom door. "She says she finds most of them a vexation to her spirit

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

Whatever moves you bears divine insight.

Her sigh was like her soul flowing out.

May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.

My father said, You are a spirit. Where did you die? and we were equally alive. I thought to correct him but he was not in his perfect mind.

It is the hour to rend thy chains, The blossom time of souls.

Christ re-enacts in the outward historical world what is being enacted at all times in the inner world of the soul. In man the Spirit becomes the ego in order that the ego may become pure Spirit; the Spirit becomes ego by incarnating in the mind in the form of intellection, of truth, and the ego becomes the Spirit through uniting with it.

Anyone who reads Thoreau might find his sage advice a beacon for living a fulfilling life. The key is to leave your life open to opportunities, ideas and change—offered by education, travel, reading books and joining clubs. When you do, you will meet others who love to explore their spirits, minds and potential talents. Once you mingle with those people, their ideas cascade onto and into you.