The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.
—Elia Kazan
And like the fish, swimming in the vast sea and resting in its deeps, and like the bird, boldly mounting high in the sky, so the soul feels its spirit freely moving through the vastness and the depth and the unutterable richness of love.
—Beatrice of Nazareth
The sense of smell in the animal is what intuition is to the human spirit. It tells you of the invisible, of what cannot be detected by any other means. It tells you the things that are not there, yet are coming. You see into the blind, opaque past and round the corner of time.
—Laurens Van der Post
Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan
All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
—Morihei Ueshiba
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
The sun rose this morning at 6:32 A.M. This gratifying event was first reported by Mrs. Dorothy Stetson of Freeport, Long Island, who promptly telephoned the mayor. The Society for Affirming the End of the World at once went into a special session and postponed the arrival of that event for twenty-four hours. All honor to Mrs. Stetson for her public spirit.
—Thornton Wilder
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
—Edward Abbey
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
—John Updike
Q: You have said that "the spirit is the body." What do you mean by that?
—Unknown
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
—Kahlil Gibran
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
—Joyce Brothers
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
—Bennett Cerf