The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts--not to give it joy, but to give it… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Yes, this life is passing swiftly; our days seem to fade quickly; and death appears frightening at times. Nevertheless, our spirit will… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“Every being experiences themselves as the center of their experience. Consciousness is what lies at our very core, and connects us all… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
One last word of farewell, dear master and mistress. Whenever you visit my grave, say to yourselves with regret but also happiness… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the way, there develops within the soul a yearning that can no longer be ignored, a craving for the great… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the… — Cecil Roth Copy Share Image
Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the… — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
The triumph of the Romans was indeed sullied by their treatment of the captive king, whom they hung on a gibbet without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
I do not want to frighten you by telling you about the temptations life will bring. Anyone who is healthy in spirit… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I am writing for the Christian agnostic, by which I mean a person who is immensely attracted to Christ and who seeks… — Leslie Weatherhead Copy Share Image
The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we are made… — John Owen Copy Share Image
I have talked with people that have no assurance of sins forgiven. They want to feel saved before they're willing to commit… — Paris Reidhead Copy Share Image
In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
When we believe that God hears us, it is but natural that we should be eager to hear Him. Only from Him… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Don't wait for the muse. As I've said, he's a hardheaded guy who's not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK?… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Words alone are inadequate to express spiritual realities. This book expresses the Red Indian spirit because it combines the best photographs ever… — Thomas Yellowtail Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The war you feel within - that restlessness, the unending uncertainty - is not to be dismissed, avoided, hated. That internal conflict… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
When the soul by the Holy Spirit comes to know the Mother of God; when in the Holy Spirit the soul becomes… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The teachings of many faiths share much in common. And people of many faiths are united in our commitments to love our… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way… — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
In my view, immigrants today aren't any different from immigrants who have come to America throughout our nation's history. They bring new… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender,… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
“The greatest gift we have ever received, and ever will or could receive, is the Spirit of God Himself. He enters the… — David Paul Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I came away believing and really deeply troubled by is the extent to which you can have two well-intentioned people talking in… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Spirit, mind, and body,” the wizened ardent said, her voice echoing in the stone catacomb. “Death is the separation of the three.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The man, most man, Works best for men, and, if most men indeed, He gets his manhood plainest from his soul: While,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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