Quotes About Spirit

I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am.

Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.

It's sort of fair to say that Amazons, both as reality and as a dream of equality, have always been with us; it's just that sometimes that fiery Amazon spirit is hidden from view or even suppressed.

A girl stood before the dressing table, pulling a brush through her long dark hair. The sight filled McKenna with a rush of pleasure. Lady Aline Marsden... the older daughter of the Earl of Westcliff. She was warm, high-spirited, and beautiful in all ways.

Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there, I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow, I am the sun on ripened grain, I am the gentle autumn rain. When you awaken in the morning's hush I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

Jesus is fairer, Jesus is purer He makes our sorrowing spirit sing.

It's those little nicks and dents and imperfections of spirit that allow us to flow out into a thirsty world. It's our scars that allow us to relate to the scars of others, our suffering that connects us to others who suffer.

Every time you mourn for me, I'll be far away. But when you celebrate, I'll be right there with you, dancing.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

What binds me to this earth? What remembers the dead and grows toward them?

What binds me to this earth? What remembers the dead and grows toward them? I'm

I think we make a big mistake about ghosts,' he said suddenly. 'We think they are from the past. We think they are all dead. But they are alive. And some of them are not even born yet. They are travellers.' 'Travellers?

You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.

Are men and beasts of the same category? Is there no essential difference between them in respect to the quality of their value?…It is an offense to the majesty of the human spirit; for if any man deserves to be regarded as of the same quality as a beast of burden, then no man has any dignity left.

I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?

You are a perfect woman, a magical blend of beauty, intelligence, and spirit. Without you, my life is nothing.

His indomitable spirit was uplifting, and unexpected. He wasn't going to let a despotic regime and a bunch of international sanctions get in the way of life, no way! Ironically, it reminded me of all the best elements of the United States, that go-get-'em, can-do positivity that is such a heartening aspect of American culture. It wasn't a comparison I was expecting to make in Iran, but I was already becoming used to being confounded and surprised at every turn.

Meanness of spirit has no place in disagreements. It all boils down to how you love others.

I've never been connected with a losing team and I hope to instill a winning spirit in the Packers in a lot less than five years.

Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.

All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain.

Stronger than steel is the sword of the Spirit; Swifter than arrows, the light of the truth.

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.