#spirit

She was very fond of thinking and getting at the truth of things, but was so far from being pedantic, so full of youthful ways that from the first moment one began to love all these originalities in her, and to accept them. [...] This naive combination in her of the child and the thinking woman, this childlike and absolutely genuine thirst for truth and justice, and absolute faith in her impulses--all this lighted up her face with a fine glow of sincerity, giving it a lofty, spiritual beauty, and one began to understand that it was not so easy to gauge the full significance of that beauty which was not all at once apparent to every ordinary unsympathetic eye. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#child #love #sincerity #spirituality #woman

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#could #help #heroic #industrious #misfortunes

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. ↗

— Jules Verne

#am #believe #cat #cats #cloud

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#compassion #learning #politics #relegion #spirituality

Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life. ↗

— David Chalmers

#complete #consciousness #down #except #fact

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. ↗

— Neville Chamberlain

#avoid #causes #collaboration #discussion #good

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. ↗

— Chanakya

#greedy #happiness #here #moving #peace

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#experience #human #human being #human experience #immersed

Life is a lease and God is the landlord. ↗

— Sarah Strohmeyer

#life

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#born #fact #faith #in fact #must