Quotes About Spirit

I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.

there are no spares in case one is lost. Souls are only given once.

We are all stardust and memories.

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

the artist through his or her work revealed pure spirit so that men mired in the bitter reality of daily life might find the strength to continue.30

The spirit of Italy has taken over my soul. I'm relaxed, happy, warm. It's as if i'm part of the earth, not just standing out it.

He were to take back His Spirit and withdraw His breath, all humanity would turn to dust (Job 34:14)! He doesn't, because of the extravagant and passionate love He has for His creation; and nothing, not all powers of heaven or hell, can ever separate the love of the Father from the children He created (Romans 8:38–39).

Listen to the wind. Hear the stones, taste the moonlight. Feel the spirit of the trees and flowers and creatures that share the night with us. They were the same words that her mother had used when teaching her to appreciate the world when she was a small child.

Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord.

Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.

the essence of experience, the law of relation, is reciprocal freeing: here is "the rock and the substance of the human spirit.

She thought: This is how all life should be accepted, in desireless wonder, reaching out for nothing and thrusting nothing away, rejoicing in the different essence of each moment as it blazes into the present from the folded future. But she was under no illusions; for a life of such moments one needed a heart without roots, a spirit free in the wind, and empty hands. Once she had had them. She would never know them again. She had committed too much to earth.

Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.

You should try smiling, yourself,' he had said with a sudden flash of spirit. 'Do you never tire of being displeased, Darcy? Upon my soul, I believe you take pleasure in finding fault and looking at the world with disdain.

None strive to know their proper merit But strain for wisdom, beauty, spirit And lose the praise that is their due When they've the impossible in view

The reward is entrance to the "world of the Spirit," which is to say, entrance to this world, a place at this table, in this human life. I am not much concerned about the existence of a hereafter, a "next" life—this life is what I have, this is where I live, and I believe that my spiritual growth depends upon the work I do here and now. That work amounts to seeing this world clearly, moving through it gently, and learning to love it well.

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

Those of you who have been so kind, so loyal, so wonderful, so friendly, so generous I appreciate it more than I can tell you! And though I am very sick, my spirit is strong. And it is the love I get that keeps me this way from God and from you.

Giddy-Yap, Rainbow!

The more people do, the more society develops, the more problems arise. The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something. Originally there was no reason to progress, and nothing that had to be done. We have come to the point at which there is no other way than to bring about a "movement" not to bring anything about.

In Japan, it is said that words of the soul reside in a spirit called kotodama or the spirit of words, and the act of speaking words has the power to change the world. We all know that words have an enormous influence on the way we think and feel, and that things generally go more smoothly when positive words are used.

Joy is food for the heart. Love is food for the soul.

Love is the soul of the universe; joy is its heartbeat.

Love is the soul's rainbow.