Motivational Quotes

Spirituality

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

- Saadi

Best Quotes about Spirituality

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

Ruskin, John

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

Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Orwell, George

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

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

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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 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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Not by might, or power, but by my spirit, says the Lord.

Bible

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

Dyer, Wayne

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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gogarty, Oliver St. John

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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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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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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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Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.

James, William

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Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Let the spirit of adventure set the tone.

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

Jung, Carl

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The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Carlyle, 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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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Joubert, Joseph

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I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. There we go beyond those limited and limiting patterns of body, emotions, volition, and understanding that have been keeping us in dry-dock. Instead we become available to our capacity for a larger life in body, mind, and spirit. In this state we know great torrents of delight.

Houston, Jean

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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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.

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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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He is not the same, nor is he another.

Buddha

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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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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