Quotes About Spirit

The energy everything is made of is conscious. It's alive.

I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to Rice to Ford, has tried to do it and fallen short. It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words and to try is to roll down a road of clichés, bouncing over beignets and beads and brass bands and it just is what it is. It is home.

He's got that New Orleans thing crawling all over him, that good stuff, that We Are the Champions, to hell with the rest and I'll just start over kind of attitude.

At that catastrophic moment, the first two people ever created died in spirit, became sickened in body and soul, experienced a crippling sense of shame, and disconnected from each other and God. Life on earth went from being heavenly to being hellish.

Be open to the fact that Spirit answers prayers three ways: "Yes!" and "Not now" and "No, because I love you too much.

All things change, whether from inside out or the outside in. That is what magic is. And we are magic too.

Cheers the spirit, humor does, even at the darkest times. Yet

I realized my sorrow, the regret of a restless, doomed spirit, rang in my voice. For the first time I wondered if my fate was to helplessly watch violence until I became as mad as the men who committed the murders.

Who tarnishes, assaults, threatens, hates the spirit of man is guilty of crime.

Come on, ghost man. You want this. You want to live. I know you do. Breathe for me. Take a breath.

It was strange, that feeling of freedom, as if by tying her, he released her spirit--beaten down, so encased in the beliefs of others, what was right, what was wrong, what she was-- so that she could just be. Simply be.

As we are in life; we are in death. Life to life soul to soul life to life

When I said we run with the wolf, I meant it literally. We run with the pack. We can fly with the owl and become the air.

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

To read of the unrelenting coarseness and brutality of the boy's father is lowering to the spirit, as is the shame he felt at his mother's reputation for unchastity.

It seems improbable that the American fundamentalists, who desire to see the Ten Commandments emblazoned in every schoolroom and courtroom - almost like a graven image - are so hostile to the spirit of capitalism.

The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.

For whilst I live, here lives my soul's sole hope, And when I die, here shall my spirit walk.

There's always a bloody ghost.

Anger is the spirits telling you that you are alive.

You have to reward them when they do what you want. I tried punishing them when they misbehaved, but the hammer seemed to crush their spirit.

IKEA," chanted the dead. "First we feast, then IKEA. First we feast, then IKEA.

There are those who, deprived of physical beauty, develop a sincerity and beauty of spirit that seems to eclipse their appearance. They marry for love, stay married, and raise happy children who are quick to laugh and slow to judge.

so here, in not too many pages, someone is going to dispatch the miserable son of a bitch with a shovel. That's the spirit of Christmas yet to come in these parts. Ho, ho, ho.