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When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn't come from your spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.
Lady Gaga

Single, Eyes, Soul

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
M. Scott Peck

Through, Problems, Away

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.
Chief Joseph

Great, Men, Made

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
James A. Baldwin

Love, Glory, Noblest

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
Miriam Makeba

Nature, Strength, Racism

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
Rose Kennedy

Life, Beauty, God

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence Nightingale

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
Joseph Story

Wise, Honest, Betray

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.
Alice Walker

Religion, Enjoy, Free

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
Charles Lamb

Long, Before, Hair

All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
Morihei Ueshiba

Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.
Lil Wayne

Love, God, Find

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
Germaine Greer

Pain, Spiritual, May

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
Black Elk

Great, Once, Earth

I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me.
Princess Diana

After, Looking, Loved

At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.
Armstrong Williams

End, Doubt, Country

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
Carlos Castaneda

Men, Power, Simple

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
John Updike

Art, Space, Room

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.
Alice Walker

Women, Black, Words

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas Huxley

May, Value, Scientific

Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.
Pete Seeger

Live, Wonderful, Generous

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.
E. Stanley Jones

Power, Working, Lives

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
Ansel Adams

Nature, Great, History

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
Ansel Adams

Life, Human, Creative

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Heart, Old, Grow

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Bette Midler

Human, Try, Light

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
James Connolly

Worst, Force, Perhaps

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
Eric Hoffer

Power, Heart, Win

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
George Santayana

Simplicity, Foe

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
Lewis Carroll

Life, Great, Learning

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