"Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on greatness
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"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on music
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"The spiritual is the parent of the practical."

Carlyle, Thomas on spirituality   

"Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma."

Joubert, Joseph on spirituality
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"The 8 Equities: Physical, Spiritual, Psychological, Intellectual, Emotional, Financial, Social and Family"

Vance, Michael on justice
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"We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual."

Will, George F. on children   

"Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short."

Newman, Peter C. on life   

"Unwavering obedience to the true principles we learn will assure us spiritual survival."

Unknown, Source on obedience   

"There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems."

Carlyle, Thomas on proverbs
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"As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences."

Stowell, Joseph on passion   

"The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness."

Twitchell, Paul on freedom   

"He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again."

John of the Cross, St. on spirituality   

"Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them."

Schweitzer, Albert on spirituality
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"Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations."

Unknown, Source on age and aging
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"We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen."

Coolidge, Calvin on vision
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"The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."

Osler, Sir William on ignorance
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"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises."

Buscaglia, Leo on spirituality
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"The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on spirituality
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"No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on leadership   

"A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt."

Twain, Mark on words
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"Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless."

Nisker, Wes ''Scoop'' on poetry and poets
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"God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages."

Channing, William Ellery on books - reading
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"On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear."

Bhagavad Gita on failure
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"A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on health   

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"The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture."

Mumford, Lewis on machinery   

"We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen."

Merton, Thomas on failure
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"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins."

Rohn, Jim on learning
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"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hatred
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"Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism."

Simms, William Gilmore on criticism   

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

Ziglar, Zig on goals
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"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

Rohn, Jim on education
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"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment."

Woodman, Cousin on experience   

"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior."

Mcluhan, Marshall on experience   

"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."

Geneen, Harold S. on experience   

"You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on spirituality
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"Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men."

Proverb, Chinese on wisdom
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"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know."

Saroyan, William on wisdom
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"The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on books - reading