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“I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.”

People Feels Years Humans Lasts Spirit Lost Bits Opinion Periods Lows Champion Optimist Human Spirit

Author:Jude Law

“Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.”

Earth Happiness Spirit Periods Discovery Roots Plant Enjoyed Substitutes Admirable

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend. There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, "I do enjoy myself", or , "I am horrified," we are insincere.”

“His [Turgot's] first important literary and scholastic effort was a treatise On the Existence of God. Few fragments of it remain, but we are helped to understand him when we learn that he asserted, and to the end of his life maintained, his belief in an Almighty Creator and Upholder of the Universe. It did, indeed, at a later period suit the purposes of his enemies, exasperated by his tolerant spirit and his reforming plans, to proclaim him an atheist; but that sort of charge has been the commonest of missiles against troublesome thinkers in all times.”

“We must have faith during the period of our grief. We think that our afflictions will be greater than we can bear, but we do not know the strength of our own hearts, nor the power of God. He knows all. He knows every folding of the heart and also the extent of the sorrow that he inflicts. What we think will overwhelm us entirely only subdues and conquers our pride. Our renewed spirit rises from its subjugation with a celestial strength and consolation.”

Thinking Knows Heart Spirit Grief Greater Pride Bears Periods Sorrow Conquer Have Faith Affliction Consolation Celestial Power Of God Subjugation Folding

Author:Francois Fenelon

“The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same invariable spirit of wisdom and virtue. ... Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.”

People World Years Two Government Spirit United History Virtue Objects Periods Forty Two Years Sole Reign Great People Roman Empire

Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

“If the religious spirit be ever mentioned in any historical narration, we are sure to meet afterwards with a detail of the miseries which attend it. And no period of time can be happier or more prosperous, than those in which it is never regarded or heard of.”

Ifs Spirit Religion Religious Heard Periods Misery Historical Details Prosperous Narration

Book:Dialogues and Natural History of Religion

Source: Dialogues and Natural History of Religion

“He [the Lord] will always hear your prayers and will invariably answer them. However, His answers will seldom come while you are on your knees praying, even when you may plead for an immediate response. Rather, He will prompt you in quiet moments when the Spirit can most effectively touch your mind and heart. Hence, you should find periods of quiet time to recognize when you are being instructed and strengthened.”

Should Mind Heart May Moments Spirit Prayer Answers Lord Praying Periods Quiet Response Knees Heart And Mind Our Prayers Prompts Quiet Time Quiet Moments

Author:Richard G. Scott

“The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit. In the really good periods of German life the German woman never needed to emancipate herself.”

Spirit Needed Periods Intellect Invention Phrases Men Women Emancipation

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Our sense of optimism, our can-do spirit, that's a source of great strength in America. But when there are no limits at all and we've gone through whole periods where we think everything has gone right, that's when disaster tends to strike.”

Thinking Whole America Spirit Can Do Gone Source Periods Limits Optimism Strikes Disaster

Author:Peter Beinart

“Neither should, for the same reason, the lessons be for too long a period; they fatigue and bore a horse, and it should be returned to the stable with the same good spirits it had upon leaving it.”

Should Long Reason Spirit Periods Lessons Horse Leaving Stable Bores Fatigue

Author:Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

“It is really appropriate to call Jesus the word because God spoke him into existence through dozens probably a hundred different people over a four thousand year period of time. The Holy Spirit took these words and impregnated Mary.”

People Years Different Spirit Jesus Existence Four Periods Holy Thousand Hundred Holy Spirit Appropriate Spokes Dozen Mary Thousand Years Different Peoples

Author:Andrew Wommack

“What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November 2, 2008, because of the progress and the spirit that it took to get Barack Obama in The White House. And what we didn't realize, is that was really the beginning. That was really the beginning of the struggle and not the end of a struggle, to come from colonial times through slavery, through the Jim Crowe Laws, through the civil rights period to The White House as, like a point A/point B journey. Point B of course being the end.”

“We do not abandon ship. I say, as corny as it may sound, through the strength and spirit and fire and dare and gamble of a few men in a few ways we can save the carcass of humanity from drowning. No light goes out until it goes out. Let's fight as men, not rats. Period. No further addition.”

Men Way May Light Spirit Humanity Fighting Sound Fire Periods Dare Ships Abandon Rats Corny Drowning Gamble

Author:Charles Bukowski

“[Eva Braun] did not want me to interrupt her or try to lift her spirits. She told me she had to go through these periods by herself.”

Want Trying Spirit Periods Lifts Want Me

Author:Gretl Braun

“It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band, we were able to be dragged along by the spirit of that time.”

Important Able Spirit Periods Band Models Punk

Author:Stephen Mallinder