“The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on.”— Edmund Hillary, nzedge.com
“My spirit is too weak — mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.”— John Keats, amazon.com
“Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.”— Dave Pelzer, amazon.com
“Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good.”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit wil…”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com
“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken…”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”— J.R.R. Tolkien, goodreads.com
“Physical beauty only takes a woman so far, it is her spirit that a man becomes addicted to.”— Kristina Zias, thoughtcatalog.com
“Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.”— Tim Noakes, thoughtcatalog.com
“The Christmas spirit isn’t something you can find or catch. You can’t slip on a Christmas CD into the stereo and realize the Christmas spirit had been under the couch all along. You can’t chase the Christmas spirit down the street, snatching it up in your arms as you look at all the pretty lights. T…”— Abby Rosmarin, thoughtcatalog.com
“I needed the Christmas spirit because sometimes spirit is all you have. I needed Christmas spirit because I needed to be reminded that there is life outside of all this. That you can find a bittersweet victory hearing that your father is moving around with help, and then go to the local parade and s…”— Abby Rosmarin, thoughtcatalog.com
“It has been my experience that the one that families call the ‘crazy one’ is often the sane one. This is particularly true in very dysfunctional families where ideas of healthy functioning are turned upside down. In these families, members often repress their authentic feelings and turn against anyo…”— Jeff Brown, soulshaping.com
“[Leos], you are a natural born leader. You are friendly, and honest, and people are drawn to your energy. You are the type of person people admire because they want to emulate your spirit and your sociability.”— January Nelson, thoughtcatalog.com
“We skirt the issue of tomorrow and with every passing day, when each sunset lights up the sky, we pretend that the shelf life this has doesn’t exist.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“the area dividing the brain and the soul is affected in many ways by experience – some lose all mind and become soul: insane. some lose all soul and become mind: intellectual. some lose both and become: accepted.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“If we recognize the plant as an autonomous power which enters in order to put roots and flowers in us, then we distance ourselves by several degrees from the skewed perspective which imagines that spirit (Geist) is the monopoly of human beings and doesn't exist outside of them. A new world-picture h…”— Ernst Jünger, amazon.com