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Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. -- Bernard Williams
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. -- Edward Abbey
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -- William Ellery Channing
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. -- e. e. cummings
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. -- Helen Keller
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. -- Ronald Reagan
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. -- Wilma Rudolph
Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit. -- John C. Maxwell
There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes. -- Leo Tolstoy
The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts. -- Jack Welch
The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt. -- C. S. Lewis
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy. -- Ben Stein
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. -- Stefan Banach
There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. -- Stephen Hawking
You have to, in some ways, trust in the human spirit and in human ingenuity. -- Ariel Garten
I believe dance is a manifestation and celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit -- Robert Battle
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained. -- Nikki Giovanni
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. -- Herbert Hoover
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. -- Richard Dawkins
Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free. -- Anne Sullivan
Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free. -- Anne Sullivan
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. -- Ansel Adams
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources. -- Luc de Clapiers
We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit. -- Stephen Hawking
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning. -- Aaron Copland
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. -- Voltaire
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. -- Abbie Hoffman
By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing. -- Caroline Myss
I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum. -- Kenneth Clark
I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble. -- Anita Roddick
The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit. -- Jim Rohn
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. -- Ansel Adams
The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable -- Vince Lombardi
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now. It is a dimension of the human spirit -- which is eternal. Find that eternal dimension in yourself, and you will ride through time, and throughout the whole length of your days. -- Joseph Campbell
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition. -- Bernard Beckett
Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind....He arrived in our lives as an alien but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit -- Barack Obama
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing! -- Pat Riley
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit. -- Peter Ackroyd
The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness. -- Lakshmi Mittal
I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not. The idea that 'Neapolitanism' and mass ignorance are somehow indissolubly linked is one that I am prepared to fight with all the strength I have. -- Luciano De Crescenzo
More fundamental than religion is our basic human spirituality. We have a basic human disposition towards love, kindness and affection, irrespective of whether we have a religious framework or not. When we nurture this most basic human resource - when we set about cultivating those basic inner values which we all appreciate in others, then we start to live spiritually. -- Dalai Lama
We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable. -- Roger Bannister
The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills. -- Corrie Ten Boom
You cannot break the human spirit. -- Mordechai Vanunu
Big government squashes the human spirit -- Dennis Prager
The human spirit: Unbreakable. Relentless. Free. -- Garth Brooks
I believe the human spirit is indomitable... -- Monty Oum
The human spirit must prevail over technology. -- Albert Einstein
I'm just a spirit trying to be human. -- Alexi Murdoch
Each human spirit is immortalfor time cannot destroy -- Dervla Murphy
Nothing is more powerful than the human spirit. -- Charlie Grant
Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit. -- Dorothea Lange
America is the spirit of human exploration distilled. -- Elon Musk
We need music to restore the human spirit -- Leonard Slatkin
Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. -- Frank Borman
Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit -- Frank Borman
Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit. -- Robertson Davies
Art is the highest expression of the human spirit. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I believe in the power of the human spirit. -- Bob Harper
To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit. -- Hans Hofmann
Scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. -- Richard Dawkins
...the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect. -- Mitch Albom
The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless. -- Dean Karnazes
Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise. -- Robert Fritz
The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit. -- Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit. -- M. F. K. Fisher
The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged. -- Stephen Covey
The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is possible for the human spirit to win after all. -- Jack Kerouac
The leadership spirit possess a natural love for all human beings. -- Myles Munroe
Celebrations infuse life with passion and purpose. They summon the human spirit. -- Terrence E. Deal
Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit. -- David Mamet
The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine. -- Vilayat Inayat Khan
What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit. -- Sherry Turkle
Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. -- Ernest L. Boyer
Human spirit needs music. Music nourish the soul to survive life's trauma. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
...good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone. -- John Taylor Gatto
Loss has no friend, no allies, no benefit to the human spirit. -- Asa Don Brown
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. -- Alfred North Whitehead
There is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples. -- Linda Hogan
...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy -- Ben Stein
Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit -- Kenneth E. Boulding
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. -- Ronald Reagan
There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action. -- Chiang Kai-shek
A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Dance, like music, is the expression of the human spirit. Dance is 'visual music'. -- S. Janaki
Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival. -- Richard Louv
A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit. -- Cecil B. DeMille
Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence. -- Nikolai Berdyaev
The human spirit lies open to God alone, for it is a fathomless depth. -- Seraphim of Sarov
The human spirit is indomitable, unless your talking specifically about the people I know. -- Dov Davidoff
Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times. -- Carl Jung
Every human being is a repeated question asked to the spirit of the Universe. -- Mihai Eminescu
Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form. -- Mark Frost
The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit. -- Pope John Paul II
Art and the triumph of the human spirit - the two combined thrill me. -- Kristin Bauer van Straten
History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit. -- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul. -- Jada Pinkett Smith
Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself. -- Claude Fayette Bragdon
We are spirit in human form playing a game called earth life. Enjoy the experience! -- S.A.M.
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit, we cannot flower and grow without it. -- Jess Lair
Next to the human spirit the human body is the most marvelous of God's creations. -- Sterling W Sill
The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music. -- Aaron Copland
It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit. -- Shinichi Suzuki
Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit. -- Rita Dove
It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit -- Shinichi Suzuki
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. -- Bernard Beckett
The human spirit is like an elastic band. The more you stretch, the greater your capacity. -- Bidemi Mark-Mordi
The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit. -- Maya Angelou
The human spirit needs places where nature has not been re-arranged by the hand of man. -- Anonymous
Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit. -- Philip Yancey
The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work. -- Ayn Rand
God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It's natural to sit down but the human spirit within us can make us get up. -- Tony Robbins
The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity. -- Dee Hock

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