Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.
Troubled times do call for troubled songs, songs that unsettle our souls and our spirits unapologetically.
Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.
The weather in England can really darken your spirits.
Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. We do not wish for Friends to feed and clothe our bodies-neighbors are kind enough for that-but to do the like office to our spirits.
For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.
In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.
Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.
The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which my inquiry is directed. The course of events has given a direction to the genius of the time that threatens to remove it continually further from the ideal of art. For art has to leave reality, it has to raise itself bodily above necessity and neediness; for art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity of spirits and not by that of matter.
I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.
But there are spirits of a yet more liberal culture, to whom no simplicity is barren. There are not only stately pines, but fragile flowers, like the orchises, commonly described as too delicate for cultivation, which derive their nutriment from the crudest mass of peat. These remind us, that, not only for strength, but for beauty, the poet must, from time to time, travel the logger's path and the Indian's trail, to drink at some new and more bracing fountain of the Muses, far in the recesses of the wilderness.
. . . yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From out dark spirits.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity.
What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible.
Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive.
This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.