"You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit."

Demosthenes on spirituality   

"When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves."

Einstein, Albert on spirituality
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"Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little silent prayers of goodwill toward those you meet. Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head. Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime."

Peterson, Wilferd A. on spirituality
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"As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me."

Pilgrim, Peace on spirituality   

"All spiritual disciplined are done with a view to still the mind. The perfectly still mind is universal spirit."

Ramdas, Swami on spirituality   

"He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign."

Renan, Ernest on spirituality
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"Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on spirituality
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"Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on spirituality   

"Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends."

Ruskin, John on spirituality
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"When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body."

Saadi on spirituality   

"One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history."

Schweitzer, Albert on spirituality
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"In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense. The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on."

Suzuki, Daisetz T. on spirituality   

"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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"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?"

Michelangelo on spirituality
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"The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth"

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on spirituality
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"The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on spirituality   

"The man or woman who concentrated on Things can hardly be trusted to use those things for the essential good of mankind. Only those who have guided the development of their spirit as well as their mind are really; qualified to use wisely the things that man's reason has enabled him to fashion out of nature's raw materials."

Fields, E. S. on spirituality   

"Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work."

Huxley, Aldous on spirituality   

"Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well."

Hubbard, Elbert on spirituality
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"There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return the sense of dignity and honor to manhood, we have to stop pretending that we can make a living at something that is trivial or destructive and still have sense of legitimate self-worth. A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls."

Keen, Sam on spirituality   

"Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself."

Kempis, Thomas on spirituality   

"As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand."

Lee, Bruce on spirituality
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"It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh."

Macarthur, Douglas on spirituality
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"At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will."

Merton, Thomas on spirituality
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"He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spirit loseth all."

Unknown, Source on spirituality   

"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh on love
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"When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being."

Becker, Ernest on love
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"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable."

Beecher, Henry Ward on love
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"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."

Beecher, Henry Ward on love
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"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on love
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"We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]"

Bible on love
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"This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]"

Bible on love
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"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

Bible on love
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"Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]"

Bible on love
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"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."

Blake, William on love
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"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on love
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"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive."

Battista, Orlando A. on love
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"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile."

Barry, Lynda on love
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"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh on love
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"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."

Anouilh, Jean on love
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