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Quotes About Spirit

Vodka after tea keeps the soul frost-free!
~ Vladimir Sorokin
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
~ Voltaire
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
~ Voltaire
Who has not the spirit of his age,Of his age has all the unhappiness.
~ Voltaire
I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
No matter: Man always hopes; Life always hopes. When a definite object cannot be outlined, the indomitable spirit of hope still impels the living mass to move toward something--something that shall somehow be better. What
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
BaÅŸlar?nda saç yerine tavuskuÅŸu tüyleri olan ruhlar; bir alev çevriminden bir y?ld?za doÄŸru giden hayalet; ruhun simgesi olan ve yar?ya kadar eliyle gizlediÄŸi yanardöner bir küreyle geçen ruh. Ama hep insan?n k?r?lgan umutlar?na yönelen ÅŸefkatli bir öÄŸüdün gizlediÄŸi renk yeÄŸniliÄŸi alt?nda.
~ W. B. Yeats
Most Indian tribes considered the eagle a great and powerful spirit. His courage was admired, his strength envied. The great height to which this bird flew gave evidence that he could reach heaven, and his plumes were said to carry prayers. The Eagle dance is one of the most graceful of all the Indian dances, and the costume is one of the most spectacular of all Southwestern dance costumes. The Eagles usually dance in pairs but there are a few solo dances.
~ Unknown
Christians rejoice because God is their heavenly Father who forgives the penitent, because God sent his Son into the world for the salvation of all who have faith, because Jesus Christ not only died but was raised again from the dead and because joy is one of the ninefold fruits of the Spirit.
~ Unknown
Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes - Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth.
~ Unknown
Envìo tu alma a la Tribu de las Estrellas.
~ Unknown
The One who created the world pervades it. Do not look for the True One far away. Recognize the Word [the Divine Spirit] dwelling in every heart.
~ Unknown
No one can be a humbug for five-and-twenty years. Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
~ Unknown
A couple of hours after Sunset Michael Robartes returned and told me that I would have to learn the steps of an exceedingly antique dance, because before my initiation could be perfected I had to join three times in a magical dance, for rhythm was the wheel of Eternity, on which alone the transient and accidental could be broken, and the spirit set free.
~ W.B. Yeats
The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!
~ W.B. Yeats
The stars are threshed, and the soub are threshed from their husks.' WILLIAM BLAKE
~ W.B. Yeats
My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless.
~ W.B. Yeats
Only in rapid and subtle thought, or in faint accents heard in the quiet of the mind, can the thought of the spirit come to us but little changed; for a mind, that grasps objects simultaneously according to the degree of its liberation, does not think the same thought with the mind that sees objects one after another.
~ W.B. Yeats
But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its being and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
~ Charles Dickens
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
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
~ Stephen Leacock
Christmas is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives.
~ Unknown