Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us pleasurable rewards if we give in to the temptation.
If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
Other Mother: They say even the proudest spirit can be broken... with love.
Kôhroku: Huh, I didn't know the Forest Spirit made the flowers grow.
Chihiro: I finally get a bouquet and it's a goodbye present. That's depressing.
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.
Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely out of themselves.
While the Bible teaches that immortality of the soul is conditional upon well-doing, it makes no distinction in respect of the spirit.
Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.
Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.
Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along.
Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.
Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.
