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Spirit Quotes


"Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it."


"Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it."


"The Spirit communicating to your spirit is the most effective and fundamental of communications. Write it down. As you write down impressions of the Spirit, more are given."


"There are those of poor spirit and there are those of great spirit. None are without it but the flame flickers pretty low in some cases. The majority of people seem to be nothing but a little flickering flame. You know that when you match them against an individual who is all fire, all radiance. Those in whom the flame of the spirit runs high are extraordinary examples of human beings."


"Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!"


"The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead."


"The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form."



"A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait."


"The spirit finds a way to be born. Instinct seeks for ways to survive."


"Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around."


"To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates."


"The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!"


"The term spirit might have evolved in a mystical fashion, but in today's civilized and thinking society, it refers to simply your inner self. Spirit is the self, and the self is the soul. Hence, a spiritual person is a person who is more interested in realizing his or her inner self, than giving in to any conformity of the society."


"Truth is the spirit of all that is good and worthy through loving."


"As for his look, it was a natural cheerfulness striving against depression without, and not quite succeeding. The look suggested issolation, but it revealed something more. As Usual with bright natures, the deity that lies ignominiously chained within a ephemeral human carcase shone out of him like a ray."


"The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given wealth, fame, and power, yet his soul yearned only for spiritual peace so that he could silence the shadows in his heart..."


"Thou, my slave,As thou report'st thyself, was then her servant,And for thou wast a spirit too delicateTo act her earthy and abhorred commands,Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,By help of her more potent ministersAnd in her most unmitigable rage,Into a cloven pine, within which riftImprisoned thou didst painfully remainA dozen years; within which space she diedAnd left thee there, where thou didst vent thy groansAs fast as mill wheels strike."


"The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires."


"It was a wonderful experience. She mistrusted his very slumbers--and she seemed to think I could tell her why! Thus a poor mortal seduced by the charm of an apparition might have tried to wring from another ghost the tremendous secret of the claim the other world holds over a disembodied soul astray amongst the passions of this earth. The very ground on which I stood seemed to melt under my feet. And it was so simple too; but if the spirits evoked by our fears and our unrest have ever to vouch for each other's constancy before the forlorn magicians that we are, then I--I alone of us dwellers in the flesh--have shuddered in the hopeless chill of such a task."


"A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit."


"A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world."


"Old soul cries through the tears of a newborn."


"I tell you I can't be bothered with things like that. I've got a soul above buttons."


"Our spirit is universal, all powerful, and limitless. Why do we put societal boundaries around us? They are not boundless."


"When we hear our souls speak, we are free."


"Truly I have looked into the very heart of darkness, and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning. What if all dark, discouraging moods of the human mind come across my way as thick as the dry leaves of autumn? Other feet have traveled that road before me, and I know the desert leads to god as surely as the green, refreshing fields, and orchards."
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