The Spirit of Life is a 1914 sculpture in Saratoga Springs, New York, by the American sculptor Daniel Chester French.

The Spirit of Life began as a commission for a memorial to the famous Wall Street financier Spencer Trask (1844–1909).

Trask was a summer resident in Saratoga Springs and a founder of the committee which was charged with renewing the city's reputation as a health resort.

The statue is a figure of a winged woman, hands moving high above her head (the model has been said to be Audrey Munson but recent Daniel Chester French scholarship shows that Hettie Anderson posed).

[2][3] The figure represents Hygieia, the giver of health, who usually appeared in Greek and Roman art accompanying her father, Asklepios, the god of medicine.