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“The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light.”

World Inspirational Light Happens Spirit Grows Causes Buddhism Longing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.”

Ifs Mind Happens Young Spirit Powerful Creative Progress Intellectual Contact Worldly Endeavour

Author:Will Self

“In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.”

Source: Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga

“We forget that we were put on earth to learn something. If everything were perfect in this life, we would never learn anything new. We would not be able to elevate our spirits through the events that happen to us.”

Ifs Happens Able Earth Spirit Perfect Forget Events Encouragement This Life

Author:Lynn Andrews

“Love is the grand motive of the plan of salvation; it is the source of happiness, the ever-renewing spring of healing, the precious fountain of hope. As we extend our hands and hearts toward others in Christlike love, something wonderful happens to us. Our own spirits become healed, more refined, and stronger. We become happier, more peaceful, and more receptive to the whisperings of the Holy Spirit.”

“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.”

“But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.”

People Believe Humans Reason Happens Spirit Human Beings Creativity Divine Source Ancient Rome Greece Ancient Rome Ancient Greece

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every death ; every life; every success and every failure, - all change, - all permanence, - the perished leaf; the unutterable glory of stars, - all things speak truth to the thoughtful spirit.”

Men World War Happens Spirit Speak Stars Hours Glory All Things Adversity Election Prosperity Thoughtful Leafs Speak The Truth Permanence

Book:The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of His Life: Memoir. Lectures and addresses

Source: The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of His Life: Memoir. Lectures and addresses

“If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.”

Ifs Matter Happens Spirit Dark Conscious Opposites Thirds Unions Compromise Unconscious Something New Conscious And Unconscious

Book:Mysterium coniunctionis

Source: Mysterium coniunctionis

“The incorruptible things are all within the narrow gate. The peace of God which passed all understanding - the bright hope of good things to come - the sense of the Spirit dwelling in us - the consciousness that we are forgiven, safe, insured, provided for in time and eternity, whatever may happen - these are true gold, and lasting riches.”

May Happens Spirit Understanding Consciousness Safe Gold Eternity Good Things Riches Gates Lasting Forgiven Dwelling

Author:J. C. Ryle

“You should read Wodehouse when you're well and when you're poorly;when you're travelling, and when you're not;when you're feeling clever, and when you're feeling utterly dim. Wodehouse always lifts your spirits,no matter how high they happen to be already.”

Should Wells Matter Feelings Happens Spirit Clever Lifts Lift Your Spirits

Author:Lynne Truss

“And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?”

Happens Spirit Courage Greatness Bears Endurance Faculty

Book:Discourses (Books 1 and 2)

Source: Discourses (Books 1 and 2)