Quotes About Spirit

As your training integrates Mind, Body and Spirit, enjoy the process. Your journey to the marathon finish will last a few hours. Your journey to the start will influence a lifetime.

The answer is neither job, nor paycheck; it is authentic, holistic work born from states of awareness and being. Through the coalescence of joy, wonder, enthusiasm, appreciation, experimentation, perpetual curiosity, exploring new avenues, welcoming surprise and wandering, I have begun the next leg of my journey; I have brought the spirit of the traveler home.

The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God.

If he is not Nature herself, he is certainly the nature of Nature, and is the soul of the Soul of the world, if he is not the soul herself.

A natureza clama contra tal insanidade, assegurando-nos que nem o espírito nem o corpo devem temer a morte, porque tanto a forma quanto a matéria são princípios absolutamente inalteráveis.

Nelle scuole abbiamo […] l'immobilità dello spirito obbligato a ripetere invece che a cercare.

True knowledge, which is the ultimate wisdom, comes from within the heart. What emerges is a resonance--a knowing--which is beyond all words and which is the ultimate expression of our spirit within.

Your hands bring a breath of inviolable distances as elusive as ideas. And the ambiguous sway of the moon, of the gentlest, if you rest your eyes on me, touches the spirit. You're the woman who passes by like a leaf. And bequeaths an autumn flame to the trees.

You don't believe in the soul until you feel it straining to escape the body.

Naturally torturers giggle while they work: The body's dumb obedience to physics (pull hard enough and this comes off, squeeze tight enough and that pops out) against which the nuances of the victim's personality count for nothing has in it one of the roots of comedy—the spirit's subservience to the flesh. You can cut a head off and shove it in a bag, stick it on a pole, play volleyball or footie with it. Hilarious, among other things.

peace comes with forgiveness. And sometimes forgiveness must be earned—not from other men, but from our own hearts and spirits.

And for some reason I thought how potent a creation love is - that although sometimes it exists for just a brief, glorious moment in our lives, the ghost of its giving and taking often weaves such an intricate pattern opon our souls, as delicate as lace, as strong as steel. That its spirit is something far too powerful for us mere humans to understand.

if you stick with the Word and keep growing, your flesh can develop the habit of righteousness just like it developed the habit of unrighteousness. Don't starve your spirit

Inside, each of us has a purple motorcycle.

Nonetheless, all the excuses of my conscious mind couldn't keep my unconscious self from catching the contagious spirit of those women who picketed the Oak Room. When I faced the hotel manager again, I had glimpsed the world as if women mattered.

Years ago I asked my friend, the great actress Ruth Gordon, to articulate in a few words the secret to her indomitable, unsinkable spirit. Her reply was a gift that became a mantra for me: "It takes courage. It takes believing in it. It takes work. It takes rising above it. It takes me liking you, and you liking me. It takes the dreaming soul of the human race that wants it to go right. Never stop dreaming. Think about it.

Don 't overrate fear and underrate action and spirit.

Nothing can arouse the human spirit as challenges can, nothing can do the contrary as they can. You get to choose.

CHORUS Gird thee for the high endeavor; Shun the crowd's ignoble ease! Fails the spirit never, Wise to think, and prompt to seize. Goethe, Faust, Part II, act 1, 50–53

I am the spirit of perpetual negation. (Mephistopheles)

Life lies before us, as a huge quarry lies before the architect: he deserves not the name of architect, except when, out of this fortuitous mass, he can combine, with the greatest economy and fitness and durability, some form, the pattern of which originated in his spirit.

Quiero disfrutar dentro de mí lo que ha disfrutado el conjunto de la humanidad. Quiero apresar con mi espíritu lo más elevado y lo más sumido en la profundidad, amontonar su ventura y su dolor en mi pecho y, de esta manera, ampliar mi yo y convertirlo en el suyo, y, al final, sucumbir como ella misma.

life is a dance with the cosmos.

I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world. – Norman Vincent Peale