#spirit

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#foolish #haunt #memory #our #refuge

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation. ↗

— Walter Pater

#culture #eager #human #human spirit #life

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man. ↗

— Westbrook Pegler

#ever #game #golf #man #most

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

— Princess Diana

#aware #died #i #looking #loved

When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are. ↗

— Troy Perry

#always #continued #grown #i #i always

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness. ↗

— Stephen Phillips

#brightness #deepest #glory #god #grasp

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#atheist #been #believe #both #church

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#did #dissipation #face #gave #give

Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not? ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#bored #cast #doing #grew #how

As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs. ↗

— Alan Price

#attitudes #band #being #commercial #concept