#spirit

My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. ↗

— William Godwin

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Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#deeds #desire #great #love #spirit

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#even #high-spirited #makes #mistakes #more

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#air #around #below #dark #discontent

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will. ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

#pessimism #spirit #will

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty. ↗

— Francois Guizot

#liberty #opposed #radically #revolution #spirit

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#connected #emotionally #extension #guitar #i

There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people. ↗

— Paul Harris

#application #genius #more #nothing #our

In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears. ↗

— Paul Harris

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