Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp.
- Edward Abbey
Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
- Edward Abbey
The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.
- Mark Twain
The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.
- Mark Twain
One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.
- Mark Twain
Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
- Aberjhani
Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
- Aberjhani
Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
- Aberjhani
You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.
- Ralph Abernathy
We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.
- Keith Ablow
Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.
- Diane Ackerman
Time. In another time. Either before or after. They were not stars,
but fires. They were the souls of birds. They were entries into the
vast fire. They were the eyes of the dead. And in the darkness they
were imprisoned by them.
- Peter Ackroyd
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
- Lord Acton
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
- Ansel Adams
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
- Walter Lippmann
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
- Joseph Addison
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
- Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
- Joseph Addison
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
- Matthew Kelly
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
- Augustine Of Hippo
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
- Stella Adler
A body is merely a vehicle. The deepest emotions are experienced through the soul.
- Alexandra Adornetto
Speech is the mirror of the soul.
- Publilius Syrus
What inflicts the mind, inflicts the body. What inflicts the soul inflicts the body. Physical wounds heal much quicker but spiritual, emotional and spiritual wounds takes much longer of healing.
- Ann Marie Aguilar
Science has proved there's nothing to the talk of ghosts and spirits, no proof anything like the soul exists. And to my mind that's an argument against the existence of an omniscient force. I think people believe whatever makes living easiest, and who am I to deny someone comfort?
- Ann Aguirre
I was the life and she was the soul of every party.
- Cecelia Ahern
When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
- James Joyce
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light..
- James Joyce
Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.
- James Joyce
The soul... has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
- James Joyce
Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another s soul.
- James Joyce
Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
- Akhenaton
That's because no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed from it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer feel it.
- Mitch Albom
Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.
- Paulo Coelho
We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched, even when we have everything we need in order to be happy.
- Paulo Coelho
When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.
- Paulo Coelho
Sometimes war is necessary in order that we can finally find peace. Sometimes fear is necessary for the soul to find its path again.
- Paulo Coelho
The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.
- Paulo Coelho
Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up. It's the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.
- Paulo Coelho
- Of course, and the reason is very simple: routines give them the false sensation of being safe. Thus, today will be exactly like yesterday, and tomorrow will bring no surprises. When night falls, part of the soul complains that nothing different was experienced, but another part is content - paradoxically, it is for the same reason.
- Paulo Coelho
The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.
- Paulo Coelho
The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far..
- Paulo Coelho
It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your Personal Legend. It prepares your spirit and your will, because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.
- Paulo Coelho
If there hadn't been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper; and lead just lead. It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.
- Paulo Coelho
Really important meetings are planned by the soul long before the bodies see each other
- Paulo Coelho
...there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.
- Paulo Coelho
Those who try to kill the body violate God's law. Those who try to kill the soul also violate God's law, even though their crime is less visible to others.
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
- Paulo Coelho
You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand.
- Paulo Coelho
What you still need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up.
- Paulo Coelho
This is the most dangerous of obstacles because it has a kind of saintly aura about it: renouncing joy and conquest. But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
- Paulo Coelho
Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the sould of the universe. It's your mission on earth.
- Paulo Coelho
We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.
- Paulo Coelho
Don't think about what you've left behind... everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.
- Paulo Coelho
Problems of the heart always bruised the soul.
- Paulo Coelho
All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand, and you will see in it all the marvels of creation. Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World, and it will one day return there.
- Paulo Coelho
A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.
- Paulo Coelho
Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.
- Paulo Coelho
The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.
- Paulo Coelho
But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
- Paulo Coelho
Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.
- Paulo Coelho
Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.
- Jodi Picoult
Better destroy the body than the soul.'.
- Louisa May Alcott
A soul gives power to the mind; and the mind empowers the soul
- Jeremy Aldana
Thoughts are as simple as the process...a message from the soul; conveyed through the heart; received in the mind
- Jeremy Aldana
Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection,
What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?
- Sherman Alexie
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
- William R Alger
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
- Jesse Jackson
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
- Jesse Jackson
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
- Dante Alighieri
Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.
- Cassandra Clare
Whatever you are physically... male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy - all of that matters less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, then you are a warrior. All of those other things, they are a glass that contains a lamp. You are the light inside.
- Cassandra Clare
I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.
- Cassandra Clare
Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.
- Cassandra Clare
Whatever you are physically," he said, "male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthyall those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are that flame.
- Cassandra Clare
As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors - that which it loves, and also that which it fears.
- Jeff Wheeler
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
- John Ruskin
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
- Woody Allen
Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
- Isabel Allende
There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
- Alexandre Dumas
A weakened mind always sees everything though a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
- Alexandre Dumas
My son, philosophy as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation of all the sciences, the golden cloud which bears the soul to heaven.
- Alexandre Dumas
It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising
- Alexandre Dumas
Weakened minds see everything through a black veil; the soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of your future appears stormy and unpromising.
- Alexandre Dumas
Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.
- William Ames
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
The only substance properly so called is the soul.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
- Heraclitus
I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.
- Rudolfo Anaya
I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?
- Laurie Halse Anderson
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.
- Hermann Hesse
For our goal was not only the East, or rather the East was not only a country and something geographical, but it was the home and youth of the soul, it was everywhere and nowhere, it was the union of all times.
- Hermann Hesse
Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.
- Hermann Hesse
...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of idleness, of lovelessness. Slowly the soul sickness of the rich crept over him.
- Hermann Hesse
Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It was nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
This thought matured in him slowly, and it was reflected in Vasudeva's old childlike face: harmony, knowledge of the eternal perfection of the world, and unity.
- Hermann Hesse
Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.
- Hermann Hesse
Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.
- Hermann Hesse
A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new
- Hermann Hesse
...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.
- Hermann Hesse
I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.
- Piers Anthony
If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as a sorry state as the souls who live under tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
- Minna Antrim
The soul is like an uninhabited world
that comes to life only when
God lays His head
against us.
- Thomas Aquinas
I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.
- Dario Argento
The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.
- Plato
The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.
- Plato
A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
- Plato
Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.
- Plato
The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
- Plato
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
- Plato
Stranger: 'Are not thought and speech the same, with this exception, that what is called thought is the unuttered conversation of the soul with herself?
Theatetus: Quite true.
Stranger: But the stream of thought which flows through the lips and is audible is called speech?
Theatetus: True.
Stranger: And we know that there exists in speech...
Theatetus: What exists?
Stranger: Affirmation
Theatetus: Yes, we know it.
- Plato
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
- Plato
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
- Plato
A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognise that the same thing happens to the soul.
- Plato
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
- Plato
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
- Plato
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
- Plato
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
- Plato
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
- Plato
Writing is the geometry of the soul.
- Plato
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
- Plato
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
- Aristotle
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
- Aristotle
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.
- Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
- Aristotle
The soul never thinks without a picture.
- Aristotle
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
Or maybe it was the soul that worked that way, seeking out warmth and touch, needing to prove that we were still in the world of living.
- Jennifer L Armentrout
Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn't need time to figure it. The soul always knows... whether it's right or wrong.
- Jennifer L Armentrout
There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further yet, and what you have before you, laid bare, is the soul.
- Kristin Armstrong
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.
- Johann Arndt
Sometimes callers from a distance invade my solitude, and it is on these occasions that I realize how absolutely alone each individual is, and how far away from his neighbour; and while they talk (generally about babies, past, present, and to come), I fall to wondering at the vast and impassable distance that separates one's own soul from the soul of the person sitting in the next chair.
- Elizabeth Von Arnim
There is nothing so absolutely bracing for the soul as the frequent turning of one's back on duties.
- Elizabeth Von Arnim
Two kinds of women get under your skin. The ones who do damage, they don't feel good there but once you're fuckin' stupid enough to let them in you got no choice but to take the time it takes to work them out. Then there are the ones who don't do damage, who feel good there, feed the muscle, the bone, the soul, not rip it or break it or burn it. The ones you don't wanna work out.
- Kristen Ashley
Too much math and science isn't nourishing to the soul.
- Brodi Ashton
And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.
- St Francis Of Assisi
The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.
- Mary Astell
I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.
- Lee Atwater
Glen used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.
- Margaret Atwood
We all know that a book is not really a person. It isn't a human being. But if you are a lover of books as books as objects, that is and ignore the human element in them that is, their voices you will be committing an error of the soul, because you will be an idolator, or else a fetishist.
- Margaret Atwood
We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. They wander here and there, slowly, dim lights flickering in the marshes at night, looking for us. But they're not nearly fast enough, not for us, we're way ahead of them, they'll never catch up. That's why we can go so fast: our souls don't weigh us down.
- Margaret Atwood
Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word 'I,' and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soulit was a consequence of grammar.
- Margaret Atwood
In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
- Thomas Carlyle
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
- Thomas Carlyle
The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
- David Herbert Lawrence
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
- David Herbert Lawrence
He who sees a play that is regular, and answerable to the rules of poetry, is pleased with the comic part, informed by the serious, surprised at the variety of accidents, improved by the language, warned by the frauds, instructed by examples, incensed against vice, and enamoured with virtue; for a good play must cause all these emotions in the soul of him that sees it, though he were never so insensible and unpolished.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body,
That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct,
Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man;
And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body,
Love is usually born suddenly and violently.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
- Francis Bacon
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
- Saint Augustine
I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
To whatever the soul of man turns, unless toward God, it cleaves to sorrow, even though the things outside God and outside itself to which it turns may be things of beauty.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
I had not yet fallen in love, but I was in love with the idea of it, and this feeling that something was missing around me made me despise myself for not being more anxious to satisfy the need. I began to look around for some object for my love, since I badly wanted to love something. I had no liking for the safe path without pitfalls, for although my real need was for you, my God, who are the food of the soul, I was not aware of this hunger.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
The soul is torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
Nonetheless the memory of you stayed with me, and I had no doubt whatever whom I ought to cling to, though I knew that I was not yet capable of clinging, because the perishable body weighs down the soul, and its earthly habitation oppresses a mind teeming with thoughts.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
Love is the beauty of the soul
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
- Marcus Aurelius
the soul is dyed the colours of its thoughts
- Marcus Aurelius
In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, his fame doubtful. In short, all that is body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.
- Marcus Aurelius
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
- Marcus Aurelius
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
- Marcus Aurelius
Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.
- Steve Maraboli
Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.
- Steve Maraboli
That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab humdrum corners of the soul. You can do it with a toaster, you can do it with a poem, you can do it by reaching out your hand to a stranger. It doesn't matter what form it takes. To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
- Paul Auster
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
- Alfred Austin
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
- Alfred Austin
All I can think is that when you torment a person...the soul dies. When the soul dies, I suppose mercy dies, too.
- Avi
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
- Saint Teresa Of Avila
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
- Saint Teresa Of Avila
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
- Nnamdi Azikiwe
All music should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the soul's refreshment; where this is not remembered there is no real music but only a devilish hubbub.
- Johann Sebastian Bach
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
- Johann Sebastian Bach
The aim and final reason of all music should be none else but the glory of God and refreshing the soul. Where this is not observed there will be no music, but only a devilish hubbub.
- Johann Sebastian Bach
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
- Johannes Sebastian Bach
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
- Johannes Sebastian Bach
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
- Gaston Bachelard
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
- Gaston Bachelard
True love wasn't found in good hair or the right clothes, make-up or shoes. True love was found in the soul - as was wisdom and compassion
- P C Cast
A window within the soul to see
Light and Magick I send with thee
Be strong, be brave, make the right choice
Though Darkness shouts with a terrible voice
Know that I am watching from above
And that always, always, the answer is love!
- P C Cast
True love is not a potion one person can swallow and another refuse to drink. It happens only when the souls of two join together to form one
- P C Cast
Once the soul looked contemptuously upon the body, and then that contempt was the supreme thing: - the soul wished the body lean, monstrous, and famished. Thus it thought to escape from the body and the earth. But that soul was itself lean, monstrous, and famished; and cruelty was the delight of this soul! So my brothers, tell me: What does your body say about your soul? Is not your soul poverty and filth and miserable self-complacency?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The tension of the soul in unhappiness, which cultivates its strength; its horror at the sight of the great destruction; its inventiveness and bravery in bearing, enduring, interpreting, exploiting unhappiness, and whatever in the way of depth, mystery, mask, spirit, cleverness, greatness the heart has been granted - has it not been granted them through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.
- Ray Stannard Baker
Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.
- James M Baldwin
It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.
- Hank Ballard
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
- J G Ballard
The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We realize how suffocatingly humane we've become, dedicated to moderation and the middle way. The suburbanization of the soul has overrun our planet like the plague.
- J G Ballard
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
- Oscar Wilde
Yet, as has been said of him before, no theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself. He felt keenly conscious of how barren all intellectual speculation is when separated from action and experiment. He knew that the senses, no less than the soul, have their spiritual mysteries to reveal.
- Oscar Wilde
- Edward Abbey
Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
- Edward Abbey
The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.
- Mark Twain
The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.
- Mark Twain
One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.
- Mark Twain
Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
- Aberjhani
Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
- Aberjhani
Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
- Aberjhani
You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.
- Ralph Abernathy
We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.
- Keith Ablow
Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.
- Diane Ackerman
Time. In another time. Either before or after. They were not stars,
but fires. They were the souls of birds. They were entries into the
vast fire. They were the eyes of the dead. And in the darkness they
were imprisoned by them.
- Peter Ackroyd
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
- Lord Acton
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
- Ansel Adams
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
- Walter Lippmann
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
- Joseph Addison
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
- Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
- Joseph Addison
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
- Matthew Kelly
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
- Augustine Of Hippo
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
- Stella Adler
A body is merely a vehicle. The deepest emotions are experienced through the soul.
- Alexandra Adornetto
Speech is the mirror of the soul.
- Publilius Syrus
What inflicts the mind, inflicts the body. What inflicts the soul inflicts the body. Physical wounds heal much quicker but spiritual, emotional and spiritual wounds takes much longer of healing.
- Ann Marie Aguilar
Science has proved there's nothing to the talk of ghosts and spirits, no proof anything like the soul exists. And to my mind that's an argument against the existence of an omniscient force. I think people believe whatever makes living easiest, and who am I to deny someone comfort?
- Ann Aguirre
I was the life and she was the soul of every party.
- Cecelia Ahern
When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
- James Joyce
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light..
- James Joyce
Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.
- James Joyce
The soul... has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
- James Joyce
Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another s soul.
- James Joyce
Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
- Akhenaton
That's because no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed from it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer feel it.
- Mitch Albom
Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.
- Paulo Coelho
We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched, even when we have everything we need in order to be happy.
- Paulo Coelho
When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.
- Paulo Coelho
Sometimes war is necessary in order that we can finally find peace. Sometimes fear is necessary for the soul to find its path again.
- Paulo Coelho
The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.
- Paulo Coelho
Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up. It's the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.
- Paulo Coelho
- Of course, and the reason is very simple: routines give them the false sensation of being safe. Thus, today will be exactly like yesterday, and tomorrow will bring no surprises. When night falls, part of the soul complains that nothing different was experienced, but another part is content - paradoxically, it is for the same reason.
- Paulo Coelho
The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.
- Paulo Coelho
The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far..
- Paulo Coelho
It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your Personal Legend. It prepares your spirit and your will, because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.
- Paulo Coelho
If there hadn't been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper; and lead just lead. It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.
- Paulo Coelho
Really important meetings are planned by the soul long before the bodies see each other
- Paulo Coelho
...there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.
- Paulo Coelho
Those who try to kill the body violate God's law. Those who try to kill the soul also violate God's law, even though their crime is less visible to others.
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
- Paulo Coelho
You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand.
- Paulo Coelho
What you still need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up.
- Paulo Coelho
This is the most dangerous of obstacles because it has a kind of saintly aura about it: renouncing joy and conquest. But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
- Paulo Coelho
Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the sould of the universe. It's your mission on earth.
- Paulo Coelho
We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.
- Paulo Coelho
Don't think about what you've left behind... everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.
- Paulo Coelho
Problems of the heart always bruised the soul.
- Paulo Coelho
All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand, and you will see in it all the marvels of creation. Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World, and it will one day return there.
- Paulo Coelho
A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.
- Paulo Coelho
Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.
- Paulo Coelho
The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.
- Paulo Coelho
But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
- Paulo Coelho
Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.
- Paulo Coelho
Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.
- Jodi Picoult
Better destroy the body than the soul.'.
- Louisa May Alcott
A soul gives power to the mind; and the mind empowers the soul
- Jeremy Aldana
Thoughts are as simple as the process...a message from the soul; conveyed through the heart; received in the mind
- Jeremy Aldana
Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection,
What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?
- Sherman Alexie
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
- William R Alger
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
- Jesse Jackson
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
- Jesse Jackson
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
- Dante Alighieri
Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.
- Cassandra Clare
Whatever you are physically... male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy - all of that matters less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, then you are a warrior. All of those other things, they are a glass that contains a lamp. You are the light inside.
- Cassandra Clare
I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.
- Cassandra Clare
Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.
- Cassandra Clare
Whatever you are physically," he said, "male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthyall those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are that flame.
- Cassandra Clare
As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors - that which it loves, and also that which it fears.
- Jeff Wheeler
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
- John Ruskin
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
- Woody Allen
Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
- Isabel Allende
There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
- Alexandre Dumas
A weakened mind always sees everything though a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
- Alexandre Dumas
My son, philosophy as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation of all the sciences, the golden cloud which bears the soul to heaven.
- Alexandre Dumas
It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising
- Alexandre Dumas
Weakened minds see everything through a black veil; the soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of your future appears stormy and unpromising.
- Alexandre Dumas
Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.
- William Ames
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
The only substance properly so called is the soul.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
- Heraclitus
I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.
- Rudolfo Anaya
I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?
- Laurie Halse Anderson
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.
- Hermann Hesse
For our goal was not only the East, or rather the East was not only a country and something geographical, but it was the home and youth of the soul, it was everywhere and nowhere, it was the union of all times.
- Hermann Hesse
Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.
- Hermann Hesse
...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of idleness, of lovelessness. Slowly the soul sickness of the rich crept over him.
- Hermann Hesse
Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It was nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
This thought matured in him slowly, and it was reflected in Vasudeva's old childlike face: harmony, knowledge of the eternal perfection of the world, and unity.
- Hermann Hesse
Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.
- Hermann Hesse
Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.
- Hermann Hesse
A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new
- Hermann Hesse
...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.
- Hermann Hesse
I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.
- Piers Anthony
If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as a sorry state as the souls who live under tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
- Minna Antrim
The soul is like an uninhabited world
that comes to life only when
God lays His head
against us.
- Thomas Aquinas
I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.
- Dario Argento
The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.
- Plato
The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.
- Plato
A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
- Plato
Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.
- Plato
The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
- Plato
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
- Plato
Stranger: 'Are not thought and speech the same, with this exception, that what is called thought is the unuttered conversation of the soul with herself?
Theatetus: Quite true.
Stranger: But the stream of thought which flows through the lips and is audible is called speech?
Theatetus: True.
Stranger: And we know that there exists in speech...
Theatetus: What exists?
Stranger: Affirmation
Theatetus: Yes, we know it.
- Plato
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
- Plato
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
- Plato
A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognise that the same thing happens to the soul.
- Plato
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
- Plato
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
- Plato
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
- Plato
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
- Plato
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
- Plato
Writing is the geometry of the soul.
- Plato
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
- Plato
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
- Aristotle
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
- Aristotle
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.
- Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
- Aristotle
The soul never thinks without a picture.
- Aristotle
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
Or maybe it was the soul that worked that way, seeking out warmth and touch, needing to prove that we were still in the world of living.
- Jennifer L Armentrout
Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn't need time to figure it. The soul always knows... whether it's right or wrong.
- Jennifer L Armentrout
There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further yet, and what you have before you, laid bare, is the soul.
- Kristin Armstrong
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.
- Johann Arndt
Sometimes callers from a distance invade my solitude, and it is on these occasions that I realize how absolutely alone each individual is, and how far away from his neighbour; and while they talk (generally about babies, past, present, and to come), I fall to wondering at the vast and impassable distance that separates one's own soul from the soul of the person sitting in the next chair.
- Elizabeth Von Arnim
There is nothing so absolutely bracing for the soul as the frequent turning of one's back on duties.
- Elizabeth Von Arnim
Two kinds of women get under your skin. The ones who do damage, they don't feel good there but once you're fuckin' stupid enough to let them in you got no choice but to take the time it takes to work them out. Then there are the ones who don't do damage, who feel good there, feed the muscle, the bone, the soul, not rip it or break it or burn it. The ones you don't wanna work out.
- Kristen Ashley
Too much math and science isn't nourishing to the soul.
- Brodi Ashton
And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.
- St Francis Of Assisi
The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.
- Mary Astell
I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.
- Lee Atwater
Glen used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.
- Margaret Atwood
We all know that a book is not really a person. It isn't a human being. But if you are a lover of books as books as objects, that is and ignore the human element in them that is, their voices you will be committing an error of the soul, because you will be an idolator, or else a fetishist.
- Margaret Atwood
We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. They wander here and there, slowly, dim lights flickering in the marshes at night, looking for us. But they're not nearly fast enough, not for us, we're way ahead of them, they'll never catch up. That's why we can go so fast: our souls don't weigh us down.
- Margaret Atwood
Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word 'I,' and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soulit was a consequence of grammar.
- Margaret Atwood
In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
- Thomas Carlyle
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
- Thomas Carlyle
The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
- David Herbert Lawrence
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
- David Herbert Lawrence
He who sees a play that is regular, and answerable to the rules of poetry, is pleased with the comic part, informed by the serious, surprised at the variety of accidents, improved by the language, warned by the frauds, instructed by examples, incensed against vice, and enamoured with virtue; for a good play must cause all these emotions in the soul of him that sees it, though he were never so insensible and unpolished.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body,
That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct,
Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man;
And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body,
Love is usually born suddenly and violently.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
- Francis Bacon
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
- Saint Augustine
I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
To whatever the soul of man turns, unless toward God, it cleaves to sorrow, even though the things outside God and outside itself to which it turns may be things of beauty.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
I had not yet fallen in love, but I was in love with the idea of it, and this feeling that something was missing around me made me despise myself for not being more anxious to satisfy the need. I began to look around for some object for my love, since I badly wanted to love something. I had no liking for the safe path without pitfalls, for although my real need was for you, my God, who are the food of the soul, I was not aware of this hunger.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
The soul is torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
Nonetheless the memory of you stayed with me, and I had no doubt whatever whom I ought to cling to, though I knew that I was not yet capable of clinging, because the perishable body weighs down the soul, and its earthly habitation oppresses a mind teeming with thoughts.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
Love is the beauty of the soul
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
- Marcus Aurelius
the soul is dyed the colours of its thoughts
- Marcus Aurelius
In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, his fame doubtful. In short, all that is body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.
- Marcus Aurelius
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
- Marcus Aurelius
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
- Marcus Aurelius
Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.
- Steve Maraboli
Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.
- Steve Maraboli
That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab humdrum corners of the soul. You can do it with a toaster, you can do it with a poem, you can do it by reaching out your hand to a stranger. It doesn't matter what form it takes. To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
- Paul Auster
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
- Alfred Austin
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
- Alfred Austin
All I can think is that when you torment a person...the soul dies. When the soul dies, I suppose mercy dies, too.
- Avi
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
- Saint Teresa Of Avila
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
- Saint Teresa Of Avila
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
- Nnamdi Azikiwe
All music should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the soul's refreshment; where this is not remembered there is no real music but only a devilish hubbub.
- Johann Sebastian Bach
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
- Johann Sebastian Bach
The aim and final reason of all music should be none else but the glory of God and refreshing the soul. Where this is not observed there will be no music, but only a devilish hubbub.
- Johann Sebastian Bach
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
- Johannes Sebastian Bach
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
- Johannes Sebastian Bach
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
- Gaston Bachelard
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
- Gaston Bachelard
True love wasn't found in good hair or the right clothes, make-up or shoes. True love was found in the soul - as was wisdom and compassion
- P C Cast
A window within the soul to see
Light and Magick I send with thee
Be strong, be brave, make the right choice
Though Darkness shouts with a terrible voice
Know that I am watching from above
And that always, always, the answer is love!
- P C Cast
True love is not a potion one person can swallow and another refuse to drink. It happens only when the souls of two join together to form one
- P C Cast
Once the soul looked contemptuously upon the body, and then that contempt was the supreme thing: - the soul wished the body lean, monstrous, and famished. Thus it thought to escape from the body and the earth. But that soul was itself lean, monstrous, and famished; and cruelty was the delight of this soul! So my brothers, tell me: What does your body say about your soul? Is not your soul poverty and filth and miserable self-complacency?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The tension of the soul in unhappiness, which cultivates its strength; its horror at the sight of the great destruction; its inventiveness and bravery in bearing, enduring, interpreting, exploiting unhappiness, and whatever in the way of depth, mystery, mask, spirit, cleverness, greatness the heart has been granted - has it not been granted them through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.
- Ray Stannard Baker
Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.
- James M Baldwin
It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.
- Hank Ballard
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
- J G Ballard
The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We realize how suffocatingly humane we've become, dedicated to moderation and the middle way. The suburbanization of the soul has overrun our planet like the plague.
- J G Ballard
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
- Oscar Wilde
Yet, as has been said of him before, no theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself. He felt keenly conscious of how barren all intellectual speculation is when separated from action and experiment. He knew that the senses, no less than the soul, have their spiritual mysteries to reveal.
- Oscar Wilde
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