Quotes About Spirit

Don't let the city steal your soul.

It would appear, however, that we have not even begun to apply the scientific spirit, the inquiring mind — Reason, and even its lesser brother, Common Sense — to our communal affairs.

The liberal spirit... has about it a refreshing common sense... It is even-tempered, and of even tempo...

Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health — it rusts your spirit and your hips.

You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.

I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living... In each it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

The last breath is as sacred as the first.

Our heart dies with us But our soul lives on Born into weightless spirit Becoming colors of the dawn

Earth has one angel less, and heaven one more...

Calm on the bosom of thy God, Young spirit! rest thee now...

There is, indeed, much in nature that we do not yet half enjoy, because we shut our avenues of sensation and feeling. We are satisfied with the matter of fact, and look not for the spirit of fact which is above it. If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.

The best faith is not the stagnant, same-every-day, sit-still faith but the faith that dances and sways with life.

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.

Happiness is the sunshine of the soul.

You do not at all understand my manner of life. Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry; because I never undertake any more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.

Ephemeral, eternal heart!

Our hearts are lamps for ever burning...

Every beat of your heart is a rhythm of your soul.

A merry heart is a good medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

I am going to give from every corner of my soul.

Don't just settle for hope — you are the keeper of an amazing silken, glowing, infinite-wingspan, soaring, heart-wildly-beating, singing-out-loud, unstoppable faith, courage, fortitude, spirit & soul that light your life from the inside out!

Horses — if God made any creature more beautiful, He kept it for himself.

this finger is not I.  Cut it off.  I live.  The body is mutilated.  I am not mutilated.  The spirit that is I is whole.