#spirit

just as a stool requires three legs to stand upright so the taekwondoist must cultivate basic skills, meaningful forms, and effective sparring in order to have both feet firmly planted in the art ↗

— Doug Cook

#mind-body-spirit #self-defense #sports #taekwondo #art

You can easily tell when someone has been hit by a spear. he turns a deep shade of bitter. David never got hit. Gradually, he learned a very well-kept secret... One, never learn anything about the fashionable, easily mastered art of spear throwing. Two, stay out of the company of all spear throwers. And three, keep your mouth tightly closed. In this way, spears will never touch you, even when they pierce your heart. ↗

— Gene Edwards A Tale of Three Kings

#spiritual #art

A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that. ↗

— Dave Davies

#cut #embark #endeavors #especially #give

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me. ↗

— Liv Tyler

#beautiful #coming #definition #me #see

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#chill #environment #feet #ground #heart

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#dying #each #four #life #living

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then. ↗

— Tony Blair

#began #certain #church #conversion #got

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#drank #dust #frame #grew #his

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#any #cannot #describe #disregard #human

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#embark #glorious #great #i #i think