Browsing Topic Best Spirit Quotes

The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Ego says, Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace. Spirit says, Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.

Even more amazing than the wonders of nature are the powers of the spirit.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world’s busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man’s observation, not overturning it.

Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

I know God is in charge. Not me, I’m nothing. I wouldn’t be anything except for the power of the spirit of God.

Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism is the destruction of misery, of superstitions, of hatred. Therefore, every blow given to the institutions of private property and to the government, every exaltation of the conscience of man, every disruption of the present conditions, every lie unmasked, every part of human activity taken away from the control of the authorities, every augmentation of the spirit of solidarity and initiative, is a step towards Anarchism.

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.

Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.

Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes; wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

Spirit is the presence of what concerns us ultimately, the ground of our being and meaning.

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.

Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.

All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.

If you will have patience in difficulties you know the Holy Spirit is within you, if you will also have the strength to be thankful in troubles than is when the Holy Spirit shines through you.

Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.

The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.