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Feeling at home with ourselves and being able to create a spirit of place that nourishes us physically, emotionally and spiritually is a goal worthy of our highest priority. -- Alexandra Stoddard
In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight. -- Peter Ackroyd
Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place. -- Claire Forlani
If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word. -- Sebastian Franck
I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place. -- Xavier Rudd
By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit. -- Kelly Wearstler
Companies are communities. There's a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success. -- Henry Mintzberg
One of the things I try to do with my writing is try to evoke the spirit of the place. I think these things imprint on the landscape and the culture. -- Sarah Hall
I have no interest in changing Hollywood. Hollywood is a place so consumed by the spirit of the world that I don't even want to try to think about how to infiltrate that. -- Stephen Baldwin
I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before. -- Tadao Ando
I spent so many summers and New Years and fun times in New Orleans. It was always a place where I felt I could go and actually let go and enjoy the spirit of something. -- Sandra Bullock
There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
You must have faith to pray. You must have faith to ponder the word of God. You must have faith to do those things and go to those places which invite the Spirit of Christ and the Holy Ghost. -- Henry B. Eyring
To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written. -- Rudolf Otto
I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys. -- Henri Nouwen
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name. -- Alice Meynell
Everyone on our team shares a couple passions - putting the fun back in snacking, an entrepreneurial spiriting, and the passion for creating an innovative and exciting brand - all of which makes popchips a really fun place to work these days. -- Keith Belling
We unavoidably stand in so many unholy places and are subjected to so much that is vulgar, profane, and destructive of the Spirit of the Lord that I encourage our Saints all over the world, wherever possible, to strive to stand more often in holy places. -- James E. Faust
The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across. -- Mike Leigh
My fighting spirit has often seemed out of place. -- Lewis Schiff
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place? -- Arthur Erickson
For the faithful, Spirit-filled Christian, every place becomes a place of prayer. -- John F. MacArthur
The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit. -- Ken Kesey
Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone. -- Robert MacNeil
Protect your spirit, because you are in the place where spirits get eaten. -- John Trudell
Shame and blame should have no place in our body, mind, or spirit. -- Asa Don Brown
Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there. -- Emma Goldman
Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister -- Lord Byron
No eternal learning can take place without that quickening of the Spirit from heaven. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City. -- Michael Bloomberg
Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit? -- John Calvin
To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried. -- George Santayana
When the music is birthed from a place of worship it carries a spirit of worship. -- Temi Peters
The Holy Spirit is profoundly committed to restoring the first commandment to first place in our lives. -- Bob Sorge
Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place. -- Pat Metheny
The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place. -- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap. -- Philip Yancey
Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter. -- Yukio Mishima
The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital. -- Murray Bookchin
My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too. -- Gabrielle Giffords
You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey. -- Alex Noble
The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself. -- Seneca the Younger
Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place". -- Marianne Williamson
The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place. -- John Ortberg
If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place. -- Sitting Bull
British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization. -- Muhammad Iqbal
Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag. -- Tennessee Williams
...and the hermit's spirit detaches itself, ever so gently, and begins its lonely passage upward, to find its final resting place among the stars. -- Eleanor Catton
There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place. -- Virginia Clinton Kelley
The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place of confinement. -- Joyce Meyer
After the evil spirit of a narrow Scholastic orthodoxy has been driven out, in the end seven much more wicked spirits return in its place. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The Spirit is speaking strongly to me for you to place a $50 offering on the altar, when you do, God will do a now miracle. -- Steve Munsey
Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's failure to explain itself? -- R. S. Thomas
I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language. -- Aberjhani
This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take that away. -- Susane Colasanti
Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors. -- James F. Bell, III
I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. -- Sitting Bull
Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades. -- Sara Sheridan
Reincarnation is a cyclic process. There are endless levels of creation, different universes. In each one something similar is taking place, the evolution of spirit through matter. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body -- an overwhelming sense of calm . . . I actually began to feel blessed. -- Gloria Naylor
What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger for profit. -- Leonard Cohen
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place." -- Mark Twain
Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades." -- Sara Sheridan
Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you want to manifest will occur. -- Pablo Picasso
Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit. -- Joshua L. Goldberg
If you should find yourself in a place that is indifferent to you and there is someone there that your spirit stretches to, then that person is kin. -- Helen Oyeyemi
They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world. -- Edith Hamilton
God cares about you and your needs. Bring them to Him in a spirit of worship and thanksgiving, knowing that He is mindful of your place in His creation. -- David Jeremiah
I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars: a cluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body, or a thought. That place is Spirit. -- Deepak Chopra
The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world. -- Red Cloud
Companies are communities. Theres a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success. -- Henry Mintzberg

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