Motivational Quotes

Spirituality

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

Best Quotes about Spirituality

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Upanishad, Brihadaranyaka

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

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.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Orwell, George

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

Jung, Carl

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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Let the spirit of adventure set the tone.

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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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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

Dass, Ram

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Thurber, James

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The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination -- aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

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All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

FeNelon, Francois

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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.

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

Gogarty, Oliver St. John

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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.

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There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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

Hui-Hai

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

Ramdas, Swami

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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

Champman, George

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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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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

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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 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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This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge.

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie

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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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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

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

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Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light.

Jacks, L. P.