“Be neither insufficiently spirited nor over spirited. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.”— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com
“You must cultivate your wisdom and spirit. Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the Ways of different arts one by one. When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realized the wisdom of strategy.”— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com
“When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“I won't watch it happen—that even one bit of putrefaction comes in contact with us, or takes root in us. On the contrary, where it might try to take root, we will burn it out together. Altogether, however, we can say, that we have fulfilled this most difficult duty for the love of our people. And ou…”— Heinrich Himmler, historyplace.com
“Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.”— Alexander Pope, quod.lib.umich.edu
“Spiritually, we are all family. We are all connected to the same Source by the rhythm of breath.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“When we are alone, we have an opportunity to get in touch with, to talk to and be guided by our power source. Spirit.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“Spirit will always give you what you need when you need it. Unfortunately, we don't usually want what we need.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“David had great, grand ideas. To become well known, famous, for him was initially to have the resources to realize what his ideas were. He really does come from that spirit, he just didn’t want to be famous per se.”— Tony VIsconti, amazon.com
“Not every illness is of spirit. Some are just of body.”— Annie Weisman, Sarah Lane, Michelle Monaghan, imdb.com
“The spirit within is there for us, always. We just have to acknowledge it, praise it, thank it, and know everything is all right now.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“All I have to do is keep my spirit, feelings and conscience like a sheet of blank paper, and let the Spirit and power of God write upon it what He pleases. When He writes, I will read; but if I read before He writes, I am very likely to be wrong.”— Brigham Young, goodreads.com
“Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man’s spirit than when we win his heart.”— Philip Zimbardo, amazon.com
“The vertical is in my spirit. It helps me to define precisely the direction of lines, and in quick sketches I never indicate a curve, that of a branch in landscape for example, without being aware of its relationship to the vertical. My curves are not mad.”— Henri Matisse, amazon.com
“Will any dare to speak against loving the Lord our God with all our heart, and our neighbour as ourselves? against a renewal of heart, not only in part, but in the whole image of God? Who is he that will open his mouth against being cleansed from all pollution both of flesh and spirit; or against ha…”— John Wesley, amazon.com
“I have been thinking of what you say about form.. .I feel that a real living form is the natural result of the individual’s effort to create the living thing out of the adventure of his spirit into the unknown.. ..and from that experience comes the desire to make the unknown known. By unknown I mean…”— Georgia O’Keeffe, amazon.com
“There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.”— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org
“These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no need for Spiritual Progress. They are too easily forgetting why they were granted this Material Wealth in the first place. Therefore we must stop them from accumu…”— Mary Todd Lincoln, goodreads.com
“The direction you are currently traveling—relationally, financially, spiritually, and the list goes on and on—will determine where you end up in each of those respective arenas.”— Andy Stanley, amazon.com