Human Spirit Quotes - Page 17

• Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  Pope John Paul II (1998). “Faith and Reason: Encyclical Letter Fides Et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Relationship Between Faith and Reason”

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• Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

  Frank Borman

  Discovery, Essence, Spirit

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• Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

  Walter Lord

  Courage, Men, Skills

  Walter Lord (2012). “Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

  Herbie Hancock

  Compassion, Carpe Diem, Things In Life

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• Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.

  George Nelson

  Design, Cooking, Spirit

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• Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.

  Zainab Salbi

  Strong, War, Taken

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• Big government squashes the human spirit

  Dennis Prager

  Government, Squash, Spirit

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• Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

  Ansel Adams

  Fighting, Destiny, Men

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• The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

  Ansel Adams

  Life, Nature, Creative

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• The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

  Ben Stein

  Happiness, Accomplishment, Inner Peace

  Ben Stein (2010). “How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Beautiful, Spirit, Importance

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• I want to live for my truth, my reality, what is important to me and what I’m passionate about. I love acting, and I love being able to tell a story, but working with another human being who is struggling with the same thing that I’ve struggled with, and guiding them towards hope and redemption - it’s you know it’s a triumph, it’s a story of the triumph of the human spirit.

  Mackenzie Phillips

  Struggle, Love Is, Reality

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• I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.

  Coco Chanel

  Thinking, Sky, Design

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• I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

  Bette Midler

  Art, Cancer, Light

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.

  Anita Roddick

  Leadership, Believe, Thinking

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• Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can aspire, and neither is competitiveness in a global economy. The character of our society cannot be determined by engineers.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Character, Google, Age

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• This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Suffering, Spirit, Kind

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• Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

  Herbert Spencer

  Music, Art, Spirit

  "Essays on Education". Book by Herbert Spencer, 1861.

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• It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.

  Geneen Roth

  Numbers, Soul, Defining Ourselves

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Humanity, Trying, Spirit

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.159, New York Review of Books

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• Whether it is considered from the viewpoint of its effect on society, or as one of the expressions of the human spirit, creativity stands out as an activity to be studied, cherished, and cultivated.

  Silvano Arieti

  Creativity, Expression, Viewpoints

  Silvano Arieti (1976). “Creativity: The Magic Synthesis”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any other language. If we do not want these things to remain dead treasures, we must do our utmost to make the greatest possible number of people understand their idiom.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Inspirational, Music, Numbers

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• Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.

  Chinua Achebe

  Party, Champion, Church

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Jul 20, 2015

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• The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

  John D. MacDonald

  Philosophy, Touching, World

  John D MacDonald (2013). “Bright Orange for the Shroud: Introduction by Lee Child: Travis McGee”, p.5, Random House

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• Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up no single narrow path or gate of salvation; it was less a creed or cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of the Godward endeavour of the human spirit. An immense many-sided many-staged provision for a spiritual self-building and self-finding, it had some right to speak of itself by the only name it knew, the eternal religion, Sanatana Dharma.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Self, Names

  "Indian Spirituality and Life - 1" by Sri Aurobindo in "Arya", intyoga.online.fr. August 1919.

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