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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

No matter what your current condition, how or where you grew up, or what education or training you feel you lack, you can be successful in your chosen endeavor. It is spirit, fortitude, and hardiness that matter more than where you start.

If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.

I don’t care if a man’s theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.

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.

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.

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

The true spirit of Christmas is love.

Being true to yourself involves showing and sharing emotion. The spirit that motivates most great storytellers is ‘I want you to feel what I feel,’ and the effective narrative is designed to make this happen. That’s how the information is bound to the experience and rendered unforgettable.