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Spirit Quotes by Annie Dillard
- As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its beautiful and grotesque…
- The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
- Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
- Even if things are as bad as they could possible be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we may as well…
- The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can…
- Hasidism has a tradition that one of man's purposes is to assist God in the work of redemption by "hallowing" the things of creation. By…
- I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis…
- What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The…
- There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the…
- I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep…
More Spirit Quotes
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood
- O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. — Saint Augustine
- The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. — Saint Augustine
- Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man… — Sai Baba
- In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can… — Michelle Bachelet
- The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and… — Michele Bachmann
- The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. — Francis Bacon
- I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to… — Erykah Badu
- The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. — James A. Baldwin
- No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal… — Ansel Adams
- I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and hard core,… — Stephen Baldwin