#spirits

I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#angels #aware #body #credence #fancy

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits. ↗

— Allen Klein

#being #constantly #dealing #death #down

You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time. ↗

— George William Russell

#evoke #great #plums #same #spirits

Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#humanity #nature-of-human #religion #spirits #nature

Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits. ↗

— Tomas Luis de Victoria

#heritage #his #invention #man #music

All that spirits desire, spirits attain. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#desire #spirits

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#animal #beauty #big #cheek #color

Life is a lease and God is the landlord. ↗

— Sarah Strohmeyer

#life

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#game #nature #petty #quality #spirits

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#act #always #arranges #evil #free