There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I'm often asked why I travel around the country talking politics. Is it for humanitarian reasons, community spirit, or is it for… — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Even Dionysus's welcome-home speech wasn't enough to dampen my spirits. "Yes, yes, so the little brat didn't get himself killed and now… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The comedies, the tragedies we see played out on this earth before us, don't last. But we are eternal spirits. These events… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In my Philly neighborhood, black and white kids hung together without even thinking about it. The spirit of Martin Luther King was… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
I have this habit of asking 'why do you want to do it?' and then interrupting them to say, 'here's why you… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Have you watched it? A man who is too greedy about money, by and by starts having the qualities of money. He… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You victorious martyrs who endured torments gladly for the sake of God and Savior, you who have boldness of speech toward the… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
Generally there is in man a divinity which strives to push him onward and upward. We believe that this power within him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Evolution occurs in the world of time and space and form, whereas Spirit's primordial nature is finally timeless and Formless, prior to… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now. It is a dimension of the human spirit -- which… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God,… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It's more important to be healthy and of good spirit than it is to be thin, just as it's more important to… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal.… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
My objective is to fulfil the dream of Bangabandhu through building a hunger- and poverty-free Golden Bangladesh being imbued with the spirit… — Sheikh Hasina Copy Share Image
The Bible is like a wide and beautiful landscape seen afar off, dim and confused; but a good telescope will bring it… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at… — Elisabeth Harnois Copy Share Image
My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I have friends who have a normal family, kids and a dog, and I think I would blow my brains out. It's… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
In Ronald Reagans case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Only when we live, walk, behave, and have our being altogether in our spirit, not in our natural man, are we in… — Witness Lee Copy Share Image
Perhaps teachers must be good actors where lessons are concerned, but in life outside the class, we mustn't hide from our pupils… — Larisa Kuznetsova Copy Share Image
I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
It's important to distinguish the soul from the spirit, or will, because the will or the heart or the spirit is the… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
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