#spirits

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

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity. ↗

— James Keller

#ago #bear #carved #cell #condemned

If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when I need to lift my spirits, Kermit can always do the trick. ↗

— Rich Little

#angry #day #douglas #go #i

Do not allow yourself to be blinded by fear and anger. Everything is only as it is. ↗

— Yuki Urushibara

#fear #hatred #manga #realization #spirit

Halloween season. The season of the witch, so many thought. And, in legend, the night when souls could return to earth... And try to linger on. But the dead weren't really returning, the living created evil. ↗

— Heather Graham

#evil #spirits #death

I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers. ↗

— M.F.K. Fisher

#hungers #spirits #food

Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits. ↗

— Tomas Luis de Victoria

#heritage #his #invention #man #music

All that spirits desire, spirits attain. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#desire #spirits

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#bold #craftsman #good #inspires #judge

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will. ↗

— Eric Butterworth

#avoid #consciousness #devil #devils #evil