Motivational Quotes

Spirituality

The one who count are those persons who-though they may be of little renown-respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.

- Buber, Martin

Best Quotes about Spirituality

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

Hubbard, Elbert

He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

Voltaire

His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.

Gogarty, Oliver St. John

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.

Jung, Carl

He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spirit loseth all.

They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.

Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie

What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.

Dyer, Wayne

Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need.

Hui-Hai

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Dyer, Wayne

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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

Bergson, Henri L.

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The one who count are those persons who-though they may be of little renown-respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.

Buber, Martin

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People see his pleasure-ground; him no one sees at all.

Upanishad, Brihadaranyaka

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Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

Champman, George

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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

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But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

Orwell, George

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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

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I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world look after me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

Saadi

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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

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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

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The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Seattle, Chief

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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

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Keep yourself clean and bright. You are the windows through which you must view the world.

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Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

Macarthur, Douglas

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The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.

Chopra, Deepak

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Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits.

Long, Nancy

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The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of the visible and invisible world -- to the profound longing for the latter, coupled with the feeling of the sweet necessity for the former, we owe all sound and logical systems of philosophy, truly based on the immutable principles of our nature, just as from the same source arise the most senseless enthusiasms.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way.

Burbank, Luther

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The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.

Pilgrim, Peace

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He is not the same, nor is he another.

Buddha

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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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.

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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.

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Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.

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The man is free to rule his world, not his world rule him.

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Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light.

Jacks, L. P.

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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Augustine, St.

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Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them.

Holtei

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In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

Angelis, Barbara De

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But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.

Thurber, James

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Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.

Machado, Antonio

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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.