Crowds Quote by John Updike

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.

— Charles Dickens

“Here all great emotions decay: here only little, dry emotions may rattle! Do you not smell already the slaughter-houses and cook-shops of the spirit?…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards.…

— Helen Keller

I'm a free spirit; more people should become free spirits.

— Mark Roberts

In the world in which we live, it is almost a necessity to be able to regain one's strength of body and spirit, especially…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Imagine the spirit as a mansion. You’ll guess we don’t use many rooms. Apart from a few moments in childhood we don’t dance around…

— D.B.C. Pierre

“I think many New Age efforts at spirituality really fail because they're so taken by the light, and so eager to hold up light…

— Anonymous

A community which refuses to welcome - whether through fear, weariness, insecurity, a desire to cling to comfort, or just because it is fed…

— Jean Vanier

“Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the classic series Little House, lived that idea, facing some of the toughest and unwelcoming elements on the planet:…

— Ryan Holiday

“Sometimes I think, were I just a little rougher made, I would go altogether to the woods—to my work entirely, and solitude, a few…

— Mary Oliver

“A "free spirit"—this cool expression does good in every condition, it almost warms. One no longer lives, in the fetters of love and hatred,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I call the high and light aspects of my being SPIRIT and the dark and heavy aspects SOUL. Soul is at home in the…

— Dalai Lama XIV