The vital spirit. L'élan vital

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The motive power of democracy is love

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

Religious fervor has been known to lead mankind down some pretty disastrous paths in the past.

I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.

The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control.

Suddenly reminded, she clapped a hand over her mouth. "Oh- Simon!" "No, I'm Jace," he said patiently. "Simon is the weaselly little one with the bad haircut and dismal fashion sense.

Touch is the landscape / of what is possible.

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.

The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.

Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.