Quotes About Spirit

When it comes to being on stage, I might be on stage one minute and the next minute I might be in the audience, dancing and lifting people's spirits.

What is of the nature of spirit and soul must be gleaned from facts belonging to the spirit and soul; we shall then know that in the living thinking which is liberated from the will, a life-germ has been discerned which passes through the gate of death, goes through the spiritual world after death, and afterwards returns again to earthly life.

After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

Spirituality is very individualistic - to each his own. I feel it's about keeping the spirit alive and everything else follows.

I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

My parents split when I was one-year old and I haven't lived with my father since. He is a creative spirit and has always cherished his independence.

Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth.

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.

God can so fill a man with His Spirit that he can laugh and believe in the face of a thousand difficulties.

Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.

Before a man can bind the enemy, he must know there is nothing binding him.

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred

Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.

Fighting is the best thing a man can have in his soul.

You can't measure a man by his size. You measure him by the fight he has inside.

When a man or woman is born again by the Spirit of God they will give evidence of it in part by striving to live a holy life.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man.