Spirit Quotes
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A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi -
To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.
Orhan Pamuk
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I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.
Brian Wilson -
I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and historian (which mostly miss the living spirit behind the forms).
Clarence John Laughlin -
My whole zone is dead. No electricity, no gas, no stores open nearby, but the spirit is there.
Allen Toussaint -
The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.
Maggie Stiefvater -
God cannot reveal anything to us if we have not His spirit.
Oswald Chambers
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The spirit of Woody Guthrie lives in the heart of Chris Chandler.
Peter Yarrow -
I would like my art to be about the possibility that each of us has to realize our connectedness with this great Spirit, whatever you want to name it, our inherent Buddha nature, Christ consciousness, primordial reality, the ground of being, God. Whether you want to go for a personal or impersonal perception of Spirit, is up to the individual.
Alex Grey -
On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.
Soren Kierkegaard -
I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies again. We must wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet them in the bosom of our mother.
Wovoka -
The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.
Said Nursi -
Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.
Flavius Josephus
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Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.
Dan Pallotta -
Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of the invisible through an experience on the stage that transcended their experience in life. They will maintain that Oedipus or Berenice or Hamlet or The Three Sisters performed with beauty and with love fires the spirit and gives them a reminder that daily drabness is not necessarily all.
Peter Brook -
If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I had an entrepreneurial spirit and started branching out from there.
Vance McAllister -
The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today.
William P. Leahy -
This imperiousness which aids us in all things is merely a fitting authority which comes from superior spirit.
Madeleine de Souvre
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If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.
Albert Einstein -
All the religions have deviated from its roots, and the main thing was that you must have your Realization, you must have your Spirit. Once you become the Spirit then you understand the religion.
Nirmala Srivastava -
Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?
William Hazlitt -
My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.
Danai Gurira