Zitat des Tages über Menschlicher Geist / Human Spirit:
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.
I think there is definitely a message behind Cyborg that is needed for people to hear and what he represents and the resilience of the human spirit. I hope it means as much to people watching it as it meant to me to do it.
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.
The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.
The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.
It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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.
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
I've had some 'riotous excursions of the human spirit' alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it's time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way - they earned their stripes in combat.
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.
It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit.
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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!
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.
Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.
It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.
Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.
Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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.
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.
There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.