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Spirituality

The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call
others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures...
- Emily Carr

Coincidences are spiritual puns.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

To transmit the spirit, there must be form.
When the form, the mind and the hand are in total accord,
each forgetting the other's separate existence,
then the spirit will reside in your work.
- Tung Ch'i-Ch'ang

Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be,
and that is not necessarily in the future.
- Willem de Kooning

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those
who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water,
and breeds reptiles of the mind.
- William Blake

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because
he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
- Maya Angelou

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll

No one has the right to destroy another person's
belief by demanding empirical evidence.
- Ann Landers

The overwhelming tendency is to see what we believe to be there,
rather than believing in what we actually see.
- Arthur Maderson

The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round.
For I have seen the shadow on the moon and
I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.
- Ferdinand Magellan

t is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful
to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing,
or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to
believe what one does not believe.
- Thomas Paine

They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements.
I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
- George Bernard Shaw

My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence
in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable
and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number
of things still waiting to be discovered.
- Antoni Tapies

Whatever you believe with emotion becomes your reality.
- Brian Tracy

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.
- Voltaire

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