“You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.”

— Bill Watterson

Source: The Essential Calvin and Hobbes

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American comic artist 1958

Hira Ratan Manek (1937)

The lecture in Ashland, Oregon (8th of July 2005)

“I used my self, my body [in his art] as an instrument.... not only my body but also my spirit.... as an instrument to research something.”

Anselm Kiefer (1945) German painter and sculptor

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Tim Marlow joins Anselm Kiefer to discuss his work' - 2005

“My smile is my way of saying: "You can destroy my body, but not my soul.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Our fate

“Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel the Spirit whisper to me, "You tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet."”

Shane Claiborne The Irresistible Revolution

Source: The Irresistible Revolution (2006), p. 65

“My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on.”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Still Don't Give A Fuck" (Track 20).
1990s, The Slim Shady LP (1999)

“You have not stirred my spirit. For what can I see in you to stir me, as a spirited horse will stir a judge of horses? Your body? That you maltreat. Your dress? That is luxurious. Your behavior, your look?—Nothing whatsoever.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

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Golden Sayings of Epictetus

“Kids are my favorites … their spirit and curiosity has not yet been dulled by schools.”

Julius Sumner Miller (1909–1987) American physicist

As quoted in "TV and Classroom Physicist : 'Professor Wonderful,' Julius Sumner Miller, Dies" by Gerald Faris, in The Los Angeles Times (16 April 1987) http://articles.latimes.com/1987-04-16/news/mn-721_1_julius-sumner-miller

“You can kill my body, but you can't kill my soul. My soul will live forever!”

Huey P. Newton (1942–1989) Co-founder of the Black Panther Party

Last words, quoted in Hugh Pearsons (1994) The Shadow of the Panther, p. 315

“I felt the universe suddenly quake, and that a golden spirit sprang up from the ground, veiled my body, and changed my body into a golden one. At the same time my body became light.”

Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969) founder of aikido

An account of an experience of transcendent awareness, soon after a contest where, unarmed, he defeated a naval officer armed with a bokken (wooden sword) without harming him; as quoted in Aikido (1985) by Kisshomaru Ueshiba 
Context: I felt the universe suddenly quake, and that a golden spirit sprang up from the ground, veiled my body, and changed my body into a golden one. At the same time my body became light. I was able to understand the whispering of the birds, and was clearly aware of the mind of God, the creator of the universe.
At that moment I was enlightened: the source of Budo is God's love — the spirit of loving protection for all beings … Budo is not the felling of an opponent by force; nor is it a tool to lead the world to destruction with arms. True Budo is to accept the spirit of the universe, keep the peace of the world, correctly produce, protect and cultivate all beings in nature.

“Who… who are you?' I asked at last. It was true. I had left a body in the park, but seriously, what was I supposed to do? Drag him back to my hotel and tell my bellhop my friend had had too much to drink?”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

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