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Letter "S" » Spirit
«Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
| About:
Spirit
| Keywords:
cruelty, crushed, even so, grave, in time, one-step, spite, The Power of Darkness
«Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves to have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel ploughs air»
«Human spirituality is to seek an answer to the question: 'how can you make sense out of a world which does not seem to be intrinsically reasonable?'»
Author: John D. Morgan
| About:
Spirit
| Keywords:
intrinsically, make sense, reasonable, spirituality, The Question
«For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.»
Author: Joyce Cary
(Writer)
| About:
Creativity,
Evil,
Freedom,
Goodness,
Mankind,
Spirit
| Keywords:
continuous, insecurity, queer
«Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.»
Author: Sue Patton Thoele
| About:
Communication,
Listening,
Miracles,
Spirit
| Keywords:
expand, hearted, intensely, interested, judging, listener, listeners, listening, miraculous, non, receives, speaker, Speaker of, spirits
«Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.»
Author: William Bennett
(Author, Politician)
| About:
Children,
Emotion,
Family,
Government,
Morality,
Needs,
Spirit
| Keywords:
emotional, obviously, raised
«Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Genius,
Mediocrity,
Mind,
Spirit
| Keywords:
encountered, Great Spirit, mediocre, opposition, spirits, violent
«How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Spirit,
Truth
| Keywords:
became, more and more, of value
«Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Greatness,
Spirit
| Keywords:
rule the world, spiritual world
«How now, wit! Whither wander you?»
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