logo

Quotes About Spirit

J'étais lié d'amitié avec celui qui a construit ce temple. Il était de Mégare et s'appelait Eupalinos. Il me parlait volontiers de son art, de tous les soins et de toutes les connaissances qu'il demande ; il me faisait comprendre tout ce que je voyais avec lui sur le chantier. Je voyais surtout son étonnant esprit.
~ Paul Valery
The people we love never leave us, Anna. You know that already. That's what I mean by spirit. I mean love.
~ Paula McLain
In all my years of living in the bush, I had never caught malaria or any other of the terrible fevers or plagues. Now I was felled by something just as serious though more difficult to name—an illness of the spirit.
~ Paula McLain
After talking with many of them and seeing how they lived, I realized they didn't have an endless supply of bravery, because no one ever did. When courage failed them, they would find a way to stand their ground anyway and fight on spirit alone. They had grit rather than bravery.
~ Paula McLain
Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to Malaysia, a terrible blow to the spirit. It is worse than being penniless and more cutting than the blades of enemies. The
~ Paulette Jiles
The Captain's hand went to his forehead. A dreadful loss of status in the world. In his world. Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to East Indies, a terrible blow to the spirit.
~ Paulette Jiles
Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to East Indies, a terrible blow to the spirit. It is worse than being penniless and more cutting than the blades of enemies.
~ Paulette Jiles
dreadful loss of status in the world. In his world. Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to East Indies, a terrible blow to the spirit. It is worse than being penniless and more cutting than the blades of enemies.
~ Paulette Jiles
Most of all the feared the God of Darkness, the evil spirit Nakka, who barred their way to paradise after death.
~ Unknown
Because sometimes love just needs a witness... Somebody to testify. Sometimes love just needed somebody to step forward and say, Here I am, Spirit. Send me.
~ Pearl Cleage
Effective discipline is based on loving guidance. It is based on the belief that children are born innately good and that our role as parents is to nurture their spirits as they learn about limits and boundaries, rather than to curb their tendencies toward wrongdoing. Effective discipline presumes that children have reasons for their behavior and that cooperation can be engaged to solve shared problems.
~ Unknown
Charlotte believed in ghosts, for after all, she had been a kind of ghost herself.
~ Unknown
frequency. It's
~ Penney Peirce
Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Forms more real than living man,Nurslings of immortality!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Spirit of Beauty, that dost consecrateWith thine own hues all thou dost shine uponOf human thought or form.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hail to thee, blithe spirit!Bird thou never wert,That from Heaven, or near it,Pourest thy full heartIn profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Rarely, rarely, comest thou,Spirit of Delight!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:What if my leaves are falling like its own!The tumult of thy mighty harmoniesWill take from both a deep, autumnal tone,Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro' the spirit's gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley