In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.
~By Eric Cantona ~
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create.
~By Roland Allen ~
The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.
~By Charles Hodge ~
I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.
~By Herb Alpert ~
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
~By John Burroughs ~
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.
~By Robertson Davies ~
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
~By Branch Rickey ~
Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!
~By Lauryn Hill ~
Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.
~By Mary Baker Eddy ~
For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
~By Joyce Cary ~
The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions.
~By James Welch ~
This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
~By Stefan Banach ~
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.
~By Isaac Mayer Wise ~
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing.
~By Alex Campbell ~
The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
~By Franz Kafka ~
In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country.
~By James Welch ~
There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it.
~By Michael Servetus ~
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
~By Jose Marti ~
It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.
~By Jim Bakker ~
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
~By Adam Clarke ~
The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.
~By Ferdinand de Saussure ~
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.
~By Jose Bergaman ~
I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
~By Peter Jennings ~
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
~By Aaron Copland ~
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
~By Francis Schaeffer ~
It is during difficult times like this that the true American spirit reveals itself. I am not talking only of the response of local, state, and federal governments, although they will each play an extremely important role in this effort.
~By Jo Bonner ~
Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.
~By Joe Biden ~
The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
~By George Santayana ~
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.
~By Westbrook Pegler ~
Took us a great amount of strength to get them into the world, and for them to be in the world. I think that their little spirits, you know, just said, well, we're going to be there. So it makes it very special because of it.
~By Cheryl Tiegs ~
There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.
~By Corin Nemec ~
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
~By Leo Burnett ~
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
~By John Fischer ~
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.
~By Fritz Sauckel ~
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
~By Charles Kingsley ~
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
~By Chief Seattle ~
The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
~By Ludwig van Beethoven ~
Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.
~By Flavius Josephus ~
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
~By Yehudi Menuhin ~
The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
~By Francois Guizot ~
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
~By Albert Camus ~
The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.
~By Knute Nelson ~
I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.
~By Bobby Womack ~
The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
~By William Cobbett ~
But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
~By Elizabeth Gilbert ~
I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.
~By Jules Shear ~
I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.
~By Andres Serrano ~
Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.
~By Christy Turlington ~
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
~By Dale Turner ~
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
~By Franz Kafka ~
It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.
~By Patrick McGoohan ~
Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
~By Ernie Harwell ~
Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.
~By George William Russell ~
I like to help create team spirit in the dressing room. I feel that I've got loads of love to give.
~By Paul Gascoigne ~
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
~By M. Scott Peck ~
You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.
~By George William Russell ~
We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.
~By Adolph Green ~
Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.
~By George Fox ~
Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
~By David Mamet ~
Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
~By Ada Louise Huxtable ~
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
~By Hannah More ~
I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.
~By Shaun Cassidy ~
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
~By Henrik Ibsen ~
I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
~By Sitting Bull ~
I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.
~By Peter Jurasik ~
For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.
~By Ving Rhames ~
When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because he had this spirit of compassion, and we had gone to school together, were friends and everything.
~By Joseph Jarman ~
I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense.
~By Kevin McDonald ~
The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
I'm a free spirit; more people should become free spirits.
~By Mark Roberts ~
Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.
~By Jonathan Miller ~
I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.
~By Ernie Pyle ~
I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.
~By John Frusciante ~
I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it.
~By Emily Rossum ~
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
~By Vincent McNabb ~
The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.
~By Richard Curtis ~
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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