Quotes and Sayings about Soul
"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
(Related: Men, Time, Christ, May, Will, Words)
"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul."
- Lord Acton
(Related: History, Soul, Burden, Memory)
"There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Soul, Eye, Smile)
"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
(Related: Soul)
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."
- John Adams
(Related: Power, Soul)
"There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Beauty, Soul, Nothing)
"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
(Related: Imagination, Soul, Idea, Curiosity, Pleasure)
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Education, Soul, Sculpture)
"The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Nature, Peace, Science, Soul, Goal, Being, Human nature, Mind, Understanding)
"God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: God, Soul, Goal, Cosmos, Man, Perfection, Stars)
"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
- Stella Adler
(Related: Art, Life, Soul)
"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls."
- Aesop
(Related: Gratitude)
"When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
(Related: Nature, Soul, First, Letters)
"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
(Related: Soul, First, Honor, Separation)
"Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy."
- Akhenaton
(Related: Art, Soul, Body, Resolution, Weakness)
"It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see."
- Josef Albers
(Related: Art, Science, Soul, Appreciation, Behavior, Energy, Fashion, Now, Today)
"The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death."
- William Alexander
(Related: Death, Soul)
"The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care."
- William Alexander
(Related: Care, Rivers)
"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
(Related: Soul, Duty, Smile, Solution, Sun, Will)
"The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little."
- William R. Alger
(Related: Soul, Wealth, Poverty)
"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."
- Muhammad Ali
(Related: Power, Soul, Man)
"Beauty awakens the soul to act."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Beauty, Soul, Act)
"The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Blame, Praise)
"I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one."
- Gary Allan
(Related: Home, Love, Soul, Shadows, Will)
"The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities."
- James Allen
(Related: Dreams, Time, Soul, Achievement, Vision, First, Oak, Waking)
"A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life."
- James Allen
(Related: Life, Soul, Man)
"If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls."
- Roland Allen
(Related: Religion, Morality, Christ, Consideration, Duty, Preaching)
"I'm not going to say no to playing a show in Missoula."
- Jeff Ament
"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
(Related: God, Soul, Body, First, Grace, Man, Obedience, Will)
"Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Sacrifice, Law, Passion)
"Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Soul, Emotion, Self, Symbol, Tears)
"The only substance properly so called is the soul."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Soul)
"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Art, Music, Soul, Interest, Key, Song, Teaching, Will)
"I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it."
- Tori Amos
(Related: Soul, Deep)
"Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control!"
- Trey Anastasio
(Related: Soul)
"When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black. I don't want them to see that my face is white. I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: Soul, Want)
"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."
- Barbara de Angelis
(Related: Experience, Moments, Will)
"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Soul, Benefits, Giving)
"A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul."
- Minna Antrim
(Related: Soul, Eye, Understanding, Woman)
"It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes."
- Guillaume Apollinaire
(Related: Soul, Eyes)
"One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do."
- Michael Apted
(Related: Movies, Soul, Sense)
"Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds."
- Anne Archer
(Related: Business, Actors, Instinct, Managers)
"In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Soul)
"I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Soul)
"With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity."
- Francis Arinze
(Related: God, Soul, Christianity, Church, Difference, Errors, Humanity, Spiritual)
"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
(Related: Soul, Body)
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
- Aristotle
(Related: Soul, Friend)
"The soul never thinks without a picture."
- Aristotle
(Related: Soul)
"For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all."
- Aristotle
(Related: Nature, Soul, Day, Eyes, Reason)
"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."
- Aristotle
(Related: Friendship, Soul)
"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."
- Aristotle
(Related: Soul, Friend)
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
- Aristotle
(Related: Love, Soul)
"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."
- Aristotle
(Related: Soul, Madness)
"I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream."
- Neil Armstrong
(Related: Nature, Soul, Being, Deep, Moon)
"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
(Related: God, Soul, Fear, Body, Man, May, Poison)
"There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there."
- Rosanna Arquette
(Related: Soul, Marketing, Singing, Will, Writing)
"My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed."
- Francis Asbury
(Related: Soul, Rest)
"The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator."
- Mary Astell
(Related: Soul, Self)
"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
(Related: Society, Soul, Heart, American, Spiritual, Will)
"Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul."
- Kevyn Aucoin
(Related: Beauty, Soul, Today)
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
- Berthold Auerbach
(Related: Life, Music, Soul)
"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Beauty, Love, Soul)
"Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Soul, Heart, Feeling, Man, Play)
"Love is the beauty of the soul."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Beauty, Love, Soul)
"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
(Related: Soul, Virtue, Appearance, Humility)
"If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe."
- Saint Augustine
"The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood."
- Saint Aurelius Augustine
(Related: Soul, Blood, Spirit)
"To live happily is an inward power of the soul."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Power, Soul)
"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Soul, Thoughts)
"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Soul, Man)
"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
(Related: Soul, Character, Thoughts, Mind, Will)
"Tears are the summer showers to the soul."
- Alfred Austin
(Related: Soul, Summer, Tears)
"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
(Related: Nature, Soul, Heart, Body, Garden, Glory, Sun)
"I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me."
- Eric Avery
(Related: Soul, Addiction)
"All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted."
- Saint Teresa of Avila
(Related: Soul)
"O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it."
- Saint Teresa of Avila
(Related: God, Soul, Praise, Tongue)
"Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries."
- Roy Ayers
(Related: Soul)
"What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression."
- Roy Ayers
(Related: Time, Soul, African, Culture, Oppression, Slavery, Years)
"I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with."
- Roy Ayers
(Related: Soul, Connection, Jazz, Play)
"Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar."
- Nnamdi Azikiwe
(Related: Soul, Creativity, Originality)
"In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul."
- Edward Bach
(Related: Soul, Civilization, Christ, Example, Perfection, Personality)
"Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul."
- Johannes Sebastian Bach
(Related: Music, God, Soul, Harmony, Honor)
"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
(Related: Music, God, Soul, End, Glory)
"To the timid soul, nothing is possible."
- John Bach
(Related: Soul, Nothing)
"Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life."
- Richard Bach
(Related: Life)
"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
(Related: Soul, Being, Body, Night, Possession, Rest, Shadows, Sleep)
"Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls."
- Gaston Bachelard
(Related: Ideas, Commerce, Effect)
"Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul."
- Gaston Bachelard
(Related: Soul, Mind, Reverie)
"Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Soul, Patience, Possession)
"The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Art, Life, Soul, Winning, Evil)
"I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that."
- Kevin Bacon
(Related: Life, Anger, People, Fear, Darkness, Sadness)
"I grew up listening to old soul."
- Erykah Badu
(Related: Soul, Listening, Old)
"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."
- Walter Bagehot
(Related: Death, Soul, English, Gentleman)
"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
(Related: Life, Aspirations, Folk)
"The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love."
- James A. Baldwin
(Related: Love, Soul, Possibility, Conquest, Question, Surrender)
"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
(Related: Nature, Soul, Order, Reason)
"Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it."
- Hank Ballard
(Related: Love, Soul, Being)
"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
(Related: Soul, Fear, Future, Nothing)
"I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality."
- M. Russell Ballard
(Related: Soul, Mortality, Teaching)
"Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls."
- Robert D. Ballard
(Related: God, May, Now)
"The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance."
- Honore De Balzac
(Related: Life, Soul, Habits)
"Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Equality, Heart, Exercise, Play)
"One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Marriage, Soul, Immortality)
"Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Soul, Virtue, Nothing, Politeness)
"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."
- George Bancroft
(Related: Conscience, Errors)
"Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul."
- George Bancroft
(Related: Beauty, Truth, Soul, Virtue, Infinite, Justice, Law)
"My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films."
- Brigitte Bardot
(Related: Soul, Want)
"The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest."
- Albert Barnes
(Related: God, Soul, Bible, Desire, Information, Questions, Rest)
"It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs."
- Rona Barrett
(Related: Life, Soul, Jungle)
"The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul."
- Rona Barrett
(Related: Soul, Help, Needs)
"I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing."
- Fantasia Barrino
(Related: Church, Singing, Song)
"It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls."
- Katharine Lee Bates
(Related: Time)
"Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Life, Soul, Man)
"I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done."
- Pierre Bayle
(Related: Soul, Protest, Sense)
"Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls."
- Melody Beattie
(Related: Life, Heart, People, Will)
"No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth."
- Martha Beck
(Related: Truth, Soul, May, Nothing)
"We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates."
- Victoria Beckham
(Related: Soul, Thought, Being, Day, Party, Soul mates)
"Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life."
- Max Beckmann
(Related: Life, Soul, Body, Man, Painting)
"As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul."
- Catharine Beecher
(Related: Intelligence, Soul, People, Common sense, Liberty)
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Nature, Soul, Artist)
"Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Soul, Heaven, Man, Will)
"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: God, Soul, Flowers)
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Gratitude, Soul)
"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Soul, Hatred)
"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Imagination, Soul)
"When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul."
- Max Beerbohm
(Related: Art, Soul, Hospitality)
"I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul."
- Max Beerbohm
(Related: Soul, Eyes, Quotations, Windows)
"Variety is the soul of pleasure."
- Aphra Behn
(Related: Soul, Pleasure, Variety)
"Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Soul, Tea, Word)
"An actor works with their soul and their thought."
- Monica Bellucci
(Related: Soul, Thought, Actor)
"Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted."
- Robert Benchley
(Related: Soul, Literature, Present, Spring)
"PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction."
- Hans Bender
(Related: Soul, Direction, Heaven, Mind)
"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."
- Annette Bening
(Related: Soul, Acting, Being, Famous)
"I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it."
- Annette Bening
(Related: Soul, Acting, Being, Hearing, Right)
"To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists."
- Arnold Bennett
(Related: Experience, Soul, Artist, Artists, Fact, Living, Moments)
"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul."
- Arnold Bennett
(Related: Experience, Truth, Soul, Knowledge, Emotion, Force, May)
"All real education is the architecture of the soul."
- William Bennett
(Related: Architecture, Education, Soul)
"Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul."
- Ezra Taft Benson
(Related: Soul, Will)
"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."
- Ingmar Bergman
(Related: Art, Music, Feelings, Dream, Conscience, Deep, Film)
"Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people."
- John Desmond Bernal
(Related: Religion, Soul, People, Expression, Opium, Protest, Religious, Sentiment, Suffering, World)
"To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished."
- Sarah Bernhardt
(Related: Soul, Actor, Nothing)
"We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls."
- Corbin Bernsen
(Related: Space)
"Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough."
- Mary McLeod Bethune
(Related: Soul)
"The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul."
- Vinoba Bhave
(Related: Soul, Body, Burden, Weight)
"If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free."
- Vinoba Bhave
(Related: Experience, Soul, Body, Feet, Joy)
"Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Genius, Soul)
"Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Quality, Soul, Curiosity, Desire, Mind, Woman)
"By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul."
- Theodore Bikel
(Related: Soul, Action, Battle, Endurance, Hunger, Memories, Nobility, Starvation)
"Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society."
- Robert Blair
(Related: Society, Life, Soul)
"The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled."
- William Blake
(Related: Soul, Delight)
"Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age."
- William Blake
(Related: Age, Soul, Body, Man, Senses)
"There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech."
- Allan Bloom
(Related: Soul, Existence, Magic, Practice, Speech)
"In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul."
- Claire Bloom
(Related: Soul, Trying)
"Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Soul)
"I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Soul, Problems)
"Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul."
- Stella Blum
(Related: Soul, People, Feelings, Fashion, Hate, Quick, Vanity)
"I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office."
- John Boehner
(Related: Business, Dad, Soul, Heart, Values, Jobs, Name, Nation, Night, Office, School, Waiting, Washington)
"After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for."
- Suzy Bogguss
(Related: Soul, April)
"One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
- W. E. B. Du Bois
(Related: Strength, Thoughts, American, Being, Body, Ideals)
"It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity."
- W. E. B. Du Bois
(Related: Soul, Contempt, Eyes, Pity, Self, Sense, World)
"An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
- W. E. B. Du Bois
(Related: Strength, Thoughts, American, Being, Body, Ideals)
"O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul."
- Anne Boleyn
(Related: God, Soul, Mercy)
"It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!"
- Robert Bolt
(Related: Soul, Man, Nothing, World)
"What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money."
- Lisa Bonet
(Related: Money, Beauty, Soul, Corruption, Loss, Youth)
"Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections."
- Daniel Boone
(Related: Soul, Curiosity, Influence, Man)
"I have too great a soul to die like a criminal."
- John Wilkes Booth
(Related: Soul)
"Go straight for souls, and go for the worst."
- William Booth
"I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body."
- William Booth
(Related: Soul, Body, Salvation)
"Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity."
- Jacques Bossuet
(Related: Charity)
"Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Soul, Earth, Grave, Heaven, Lent, Will)
"The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Soul, Body)
"I hate this wretched willow soul of mine, patiently enduring, plaited or twisted by other hands."
- Karin Boye
(Related: Soul, Hate)
"A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence."
- David Brainerd
(Related: Nature, Soul, Athens, Existence, Future, Man, Rome, Spiritual, State)
"There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved."
- Chris Brasher
(Related: Soul)
"The authentic self is the soul made visible."
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
(Related: Soul, Self)
"In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other."
- Poppy Z. Brite
(Related: France, Influence, Road, Writer)
"No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness."
- Hermann Broch
(Related: Death, Soul, Impression)
"I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside."
- Joseph Brodsky
(Related: Change, Soul, Man)
"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Soul, Eye, Unconscious)
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
- Emily Bronte
"The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake."
- Arthur C. Brooks
(Related: Soul, America, Battle, Nothing)
"The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation."
- Louise Brooks
(Related: Art, Soul, Thought, Body, Isolation)
"Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Soul, Thoughts, Day, Deeds, Desire, Man, Thinking, Will)
"The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Music, Soul, Heart, Angels, Burden, Care, Christmas, Earth, Old, Song)
"I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream."
- Heywood Broun
(Related: Soul, Adventure, Doubt, First, World)
"The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars."
- Vanessa Brown
(Related: Food, Soul, America, Being, Driving, Sun)
"There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Faces, May)
"Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Life, Death, Living, Shadow, Shadows)
"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Love, Soul)
"What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?"
- Robert Browning
(Related: Soul, Kissing, Wonder)
"How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!"
- Robert Browning
(Related: Life, Soul, Heart, Man, Senses)
"I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on."
- Robert Browning
(Related: Life, Soul, Strength)
"For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it."
- Martin Buber
(Related: Nature, Soul, Being, Conflict, Man, Silence, Sin)
"Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God."
- John Buchan
(Related: God, Soul, Heart, Prayer)
"As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country."
- Patrick Buchanan
(Related: War, Soul, Americans, Country)
"Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls."
- James L. Buckley
(Related: Encouraging, Circumstances, Limitations, May, Office)
"Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations."
- James L. Buckley
(Related: Argument, Concern, Difficulty, Limitations, May, Temptations, Welfare)
"She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever."
- Jeff Buckley
(Related: Soul)
"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."
- Charles Bukowski
(Related: Soul, Losing)
"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul."
- Luther Burbank
(Related: Food, Soul, People, Flowers, Medicine)
"Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true."
- Delta Burke
(Related: Beauty, Soul, Poor, Richness, Speech)
"He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: Cause, Fame, Instinct, Passion)
"Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: Instinct, Passion)
"My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation."
- Solomon Burke
(Related: Manager, Soul, Idea)
"I want to be a soul singer."
- Solomon Burke
(Related: Soul, Want)
"One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity."
- George W. Bush
(Related: Soul, Moments, Popularity)
"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Books)
"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions."
- Lord Byron
(Related: Age, Intentions, Inventions, Killing)
"One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other."
- Lord Byron
(Related: Soul, Body)
"What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others."
- Eileen Caddy
(Related: Soul, Eyes, May, Right)
"A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder."
- Eileen Caddy
(Related: Soul)
"That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt."
- Hall Caine
(Related: Religion, Life, God, Soul, Expression, Humanity, Protest, Suffering, Yearning)
"I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Soul)
"The feeble soul merely whines and complains."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Soul)
"Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Ambition, Fire, Obscurity)
"The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Soul, Race, Will)
"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul."
- John Calvin
(Related: Soul, Conscience, Hell, Living)
"When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer."
- Julia Margaret Cameron
(Related: Men, Soul, Greatness, Duty, Man, Prayer)
"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Life, Work)
"Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do."
- Karel Capek
(Related: Life, Soul, Instinct, Nothing, Will)
"My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul."
- Karel Capek
(Related: Soul, People, Glory)
"If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls."
- Arthur Capper
(Related: Men, Women, Sound, State)
"The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make."
- Orson Scott Card
(Related: God, Control, Choice, Will)
"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."
- George Carlin
(Related: Soul, Belief)
"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Soul, Perseverance, Discouragement, Persistence)
"No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Soul, Force)
"Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Soul, Darkness, Free will, Light, Necessity)
"In books lies the soul of the whole past time."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Time, Soul, Books, Lies, Past)
"Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul."
- John Carmack
(Related: Soul, Programming)
"Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul."
- George Carman
(Related: Soul, Feelings, Confusion, Drinks)
"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%."
- Andrew Carnegie
(Related: Work, Ability, Energy, World)
"Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it."
- Edward Carpenter
(Related: Soul, Friend, Thoughts, Self)
"I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege."
- Mary Chapin Carpenter
(Related: Time, Soul, Heart, Being, Chance, Privilege)
"Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul."
- Emily Carr
(Related: Soul)
"I've always been a big fan of the American soul sound."
- Jose Carreras
(Related: Soul, American, Sound)
"That's always at the heart and soul of Disney's features, the feeling of a family values."
- Tia Carrere
(Related: Family, Soul, Heart, Values, Disney, Feeling)
"Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence."
- Angela Carter
(Related: Soul, Anxiety, Beginning, Conscience, Innocence)
"Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood."
- Jimmy Carter
(Related: Soul, Policy, Foreign policy, Rights, Human rights, Sense)
"There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew."
- William Cartwright
(Related: Life, First, Light, Sense)
"Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single."
- Alice Cary
(Related: Men, Women, Soul)
"Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body."
- Joyce Cary
(Related: Politics, Religion, Soul, Body)
"Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart."
- Phoebe Cary
(Related: Age, Death, Soul, Heart, Living)
"I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster."
- Catherine II
(Related: Soul, Courage, Disaster)
"Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Men, Aggression, Communism, Hatred, Imprisonment, states, United)
"Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune."
- Miguel De Cervantes
(Related: Music, Soul)
"People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day."
- Paul Cezanne
(Related: Soul, People, Day)
"A puny body weakens the soul."
- Paul Cezanne
(Related: Soul, Body)
"I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more."
- Marc Chagall
(Related: Marriage, Love, Soul, Theater, Will)
"Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul."
- Richard Chamberlain
(Related: Soul, Nothing, Quiet, Want)
"We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us."
- Oswald Chambers
(Related: God, Enemy)
"Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death."
- Whittaker Chambers
(Related: Death, Life, Soul, Crime, Defeat, Pain, Struggle, Suffering, Tragedy, Violence)
"It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world."
- Nicolas De Chamfort
(Related: Soul, World)
"Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow."
- Adelbert von Chamisso
(Related: Soul, Shadow)
"As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?"
- Chanakya
(Related: Death, Soul, Control, Body)
"God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple."
- Chanakya
(Related: God, Soul, Feelings, Temple, Idols, Present)
"Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life."
- William Ellery Channing
(Related: Life, Love, Soul, Thought, Character, Force, Lies, May)
"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours."
- William Ellery Channing
(Related: Men, Thoughts, Books, Talk)
"Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Soul, Achievement, Alliance, Endurance, Infinite)
"Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Soul, Injury, Revenge)
"Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Truth, Soul, Bigotry)
"To have another language is to possess a second soul."
- Charlemagne
(Related: Soul, Language)
"What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room."
- Ray Charles
(Related: Soul, Electricity, Force, Light)
"Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
(Related: Soul, Body, Will)
"My soul is not for sale."
- Caryl Chessman
(Related: Soul)
"Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison."
- Lord Chesterfield
(Related: Health, Humor, Soul, Poison, Sadness)
"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Power, Soul, Knowledge, Inspiration, End, Man, World, Youth)
"Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Life, Men, Soul, Time)
"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Education, Society, Soul)
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Soul, Body, Books)
"Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face."
- Lydia M. Child
(Related: Soul, Misfortune)
"Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness."
- Sri Chinmoy
(Related: God, Heart, Ideas, Beliefs, Consciousness, May, Mind, Spiritual, Thinking, Will)
"Same with souls. They can't survive without a body for long."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Body)
"Souls are designed to fit inside a body."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Body)
"Souls are not designed to float around in thin air."
- Alex Chiu
"But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!"
- Kate Chopin
(Related: Beginning, World)
"To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul."
- Kate Chopin
(Related: Soul, Artist, Effort, Gifts, Succeed)
"For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?"
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Soul, Gain, Loss, Man, Profit, World)
"Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Soul, Attitude, Actions, Crime, Habits, Mind, Will)
"I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea."
- John Chrysostom
(Related: Work, Soul, Difficulty, Sea)
"When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also."
- John Chrysostom
(Related: Men, Sex, Church, Care, Majority)
"People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS."
- Madonna Ciccone
(Related: Soul, People, Influence, Listening, Voice)
"One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Soul)
"The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Soul, Eyes, Intentions)
"A home without books is a body without soul."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Home, Soul, Body, Books)
"Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Food, God, Soul, Body, World)
"Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Soul, Enemies, Nothing)
"If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Men, Belief, Error, Pleasure)
"Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls."
- Emile M. Cioran
(Related: Skepticism)
"Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness."
- Emile M. Cioran
(Related: Happiness, Music)
"Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed."
- Adam Clarke
(Related: Soul, Body, Connection, Evil)
"The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books."
- Eldridge Cleaver
(Related: Religion, Politics, Soul, Heart, Books, Court, Law, Writing)
"The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from."
- Clarence Clemons
(Related: Music, Soul, Being, Mind, Self)
"Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do."
- Glenn Close
(Related: Soul, Heart, Acting, Adventure)
"Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?"
- Arthur Hugh Clough
(Related: Battle, Cause, Fight)
"If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got."
- Kurt Cobain
(Related: Peace, Death, Soul, Hope, Dying)
"A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection."
- Alexander Cockburn
(Related: Soul, Open, Prayer, Religious)
"There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul."
- Jean Cocteau
(Related: Love, Soul, Wood)
"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul."
- Jean Cocteau
(Related: Love, Soul, Home, Cats)
"Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls."
- Harold Coffin
(Related: Corporations, Treason)
"One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time."
- Andrew Cohen
(Related: Time, Being, Privilege, Spiritual)
"Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls."
- Edward Coke
(Related: Corporations, Treason)
"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Related: Soul, Body, Brevity, Wit)
"If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Related: Soul, Dream, Paradise, Man)
"Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Extravagance)
"Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: Paradise, Gold, Treasure, Wishes, World)
"To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."
- Confucius
(Related: Soul, Virtue, Circumstances, Generosity, Gravity, Kindness, Practice, Sincerity)
"There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire."
- William Congreve
(Related: Beauty, Courage)
"Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation."
- Joseph Conrad
(Related: Soul, Forget, Resignation)
"Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?"
- Robert A. Cook
(Related: Work, Soul, Day)
"Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Soul)
"The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Soul, Greatness, Ambition, Literary)
"The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Soul, Comfort, Doctrine, Immortality)
"The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence."
- Marie Corelli
(Related: Love, Silence)
"Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?"
- Richard Corliss
(Related: Business, Life, Soul, Artist, Skin)
"True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Valor, Years)
"The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery."
- Ezra Cornell
(Related: Soul, Land, Man, Slavery)
"The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl."
- William Cowper
(Related: Soul, Children, Dogs, Windows)
"But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage."
- Ralph A. Cram
(Related: Soul, Body, Freedom, Liberty, May)
"Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates can ever sever them apart."
- Harry Crosby
(Related: Soul, Existence)
"I couldn't do an acting job just to be working. It really had to have some soul to it."
- Marcia Cross
(Related: Soul, Acting, Job)
"That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul."
- Billy Crystal
(Related: Soul)
"Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking."
- Edward Dahlberg
(Related: Soul, Ambition, Sea)
"I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me."
- Dick Dale
(Related: Soul, Being)
"My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut."
- Dick Dale
(Related: Sound)
"I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul."
- Dick Dale
(Related: Music, Anger, Soul, Frustration, Patience, Play)
"I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back."
- Richard M. Daley
(Related: Business, Soul, Heart, Chicago, Community, Spirit)
"CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Corporate)
"After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely."
- John Nelson Darby
(Related: Soul, Deep, Exercise, Grace)
"During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me."
- John Nelson Darby
(Related: Soul, Thoughts, Effect, Exercise, Gain, Solitude)
"Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys."
- Dorothy Salisbury Davis
(Related: Soul)
"But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls."
- Rebecca H. Davis
"Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food."
- Sammy Davis, Jr.
(Related: Food, Love, Soul, Luxury, Service)
"Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul."
- Dorothy Day
(Related: Food, Soul, Body)
"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."
- Moshe Dayan
(Related: Soul, Freedom)
"While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
- Eugene V. Debs
(Related: Soul, Class, Prison)
"The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear."
- Daniel Defoe
(Related: Soul, Body, Will)
"I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Music, Soul, Listening)
"Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself."
- Eugene Delacroix
(Related: Soul, Language, Will)
"This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art."
- Robert Delaunay
(Related: Art, Soul, Communication, Earth, Evolution, Man, Moments)
"Music is an outburst of the soul."
- Frederick Delius
(Related: Music, Soul)
"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."
- Democritus
(Related: Happiness, Soul, Gold, Possessions)
"Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Art, Soul, Cinema)
"I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words."
- Ruth St. Denis
(Related: Soul, Dance, Being, Body, Communication, Deep, Words)
"It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate."
- Rick Derringer
(Related: Work, Soul)
"Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it."
- Rene Descartes
(Related: Soul)
"I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men."
- Cameron Diaz
(Related: Love, Men, Soul, Heart, Romantic, Sense)
"Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."
- Charles Dickens
(Related: Soul, Communication, Will)
"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Experience, Soul)
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Soul, Hope, Words)
"Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things."
- Denis Diderot
(Related: Soul)
"America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Soul, Heart, America, Country, Name)
"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."
- Ernest Dimnet
(Related: Architecture, Soul)
"A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies."
- Diogenes
(Related: Soul, Friend)
"A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Soul, Chance, Destiny)
"Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence."
- Dorothy Dix
(Related: Soul, Confession, Grave, Punishment, Secrets, Silence, Weakness)
"We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North."
- Elizabeth Dole
(Related: Life, Soul, Possibility, Dignity, Divinity, Mind)
"More than kisses, letters mingle souls."
- John Donne
(Related: Kisses, Letters)
"He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God."
- John Donne
(Related: God, Soul, Eyes, Man)
"Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right."
- John Donne
(Related: Faith, Soul, Reason, Right)
"As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no."
- John Donne
(Related: Men, Friends, Now, Whisper)
"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
(Related: Soul, People, Privacy)
"The soul is healed by being with children."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
(Related: Soul, Being, Children)
"For myself, Queer Eye feeds more to my heart and my soul than as a platform for a career."
- Kyan Douglas
(Related: Soul, Heart, Career, Eye)
"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."
- Frederick Douglass
(Related: Soul, Man)
"I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune."
- Roma Downey
(Related: Soul, Irish, Will, World)
"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail."
- Theodore Dreiser
(Related: Art, Soul, Misery)
"Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave."
- Theodore Dreiser
(Related: Soul, Fish, Man, Old, Wives)
"Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul."
- John Dryden
(Related: Soul, Jealousy)
"Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son."
- John Dryden
(Related: Money, Son, Soul, May, Miser, Trade)
"We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely."
- Georges Duhamel
(Related: Work, Soul, Debate, Grave, Nothing, Now)
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul."
- Isadora Duncan
(Related: Soul, Body)
"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."
- Will Durant
(Related: Soul, Knowledge, Desire, Eye)
"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive."
- Eleanora Duse
(Related: Nature, Soul, Joy, Sight)
"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive."
- Eleonora Duse
(Related: Nature, Power, Soul, Joy, Sight)
"Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul."
- Wayne Dyer
(Related: Soul, Body)
"As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge."
- Henry Van Dyke
(Related: Soul, Habit, Living, Routine, Will)
"I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Experience, Soul, Character, Acting, Actor, Theatre)
"A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there."
- Meister Eckhart
(Related: Soul, Heart, Being)
"If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself."
- Meister Eckhart
(Related: God, Soul, Creation)
"Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago."
- Billy Eckstine
(Related: God, Soul, Chicago, Fame, First, Rest)
"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night."
- Marian Wright Edelman
(Related: Money, Work, Power, Soul, Help, Night, Sleep)
"I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future."
- John Edward
(Related: Soul, Accident, Future, Illness, Journey)
"Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul."
- Mark Edwards
(Related: Life, Soul, Will)
"It is only to the individual that a soul is given."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Soul)
"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Health, Life, Soul, Devil)
"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Soul, Strength, Cause, Reason)
"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Religion, Soul, Goodness, Living, Righteousness)
"There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart."
- Alfred Einstein
(Related: Men, God, Soul, Being, Body, Struggle)
"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories."
- George Eliot
(Related: Memories)
"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."
- George Eliot
(Related: Soul, Earth)
"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."
- George Eliot
(Related: Soul, Influence)
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."
- George Eliot
(Related: Soul, Belief, Unbelief)
"The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself."
- T. S. Eliot
(Related: Soul, Being)
"My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood."
- Kim Elizabeth
(Related: Imagination, Love, Dreams, Soul, Heart, Blood, Fantasy, Fire, Horror, Light)
"There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men."
- Black Elk
(Related: Men, Peace, First, Nations)
"Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away."
- Jim Elliot
(Related: God, Soul, Law, Laws, Result)
"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Soul, Character, Intellect, Will)
"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Friendship, Soul, Immortality)
"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse."
- Epictetus
(Related: Soul)
"It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it."
- Epictetus
(Related: Soul, Heart, Body)
"From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing."
- Joe Eszterhas
(Related: Power, Soul, Heart, Now, Writing)
"I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet."
- Melissa Etheridge
(Related: Soul, Freedom, Lonely)
"'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore."
- Euripides
(Related: Soul, Tongue)
"This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger."
- Shelley Fabares
(Related: Marriage, Soul, People, Tears)
"I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion."
- William Falconer
(Related: Soul, Compassion, Kindness, Man, Spirit, Voice, Will)
"War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation."
- Oriana Fallaci
(Related: War, Failure, Poor)
"Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition."
- Eliza Farnham
(Related: Power, Time, Soul, Church, Body, Shame)
"The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul."
- Eliza Farnham
(Related: Beauty, Experience, Life, Soul, Development, Language, Office, Study, Value, Will)
"There are a lot of laughs in this movie, but it's not just about the laughs. It's really about the story, about a guy who finds his soul and realizes what's truly important."
- Peter Farrelly
(Related: Soul)
"I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
- William Faulkner
(Related: Sacrifice, Soul, Compassion, Endurance, Man, Spirit, Voice, Will)
"Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves."
- Owen Feltham
(Related: Soul)
"Meditation is the soul's perspective glass."
- Owen Feltham
(Related: Soul, Meditation, Perspective)
"Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half."
- Francois Fenelon
(Related: Soul, Friends, Melancholy)
"Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Envy, Worth)
"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later."
- Henry Fielding
(Related: Soul, Greatness, Adversity, Mind, Prosperity, Will)
"Johnny Cash was plenty good enough to fool his fans. They believed he felt it in his soul when he sang the Gospel while stoned on drugs."
- Suzanne Fields
(Related: Soul, Drugs, Fans, Fool)
"Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul."
- Suzanne Fields
(Related: Food, Sex, Soul, Body)
"Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul."
- Geoffrey Fisher
(Related: Life, Soul)
"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Related: Soul, Day, Night)
"Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work."
- Gustave Flaubert
(Related: Work, Soul, Style, Words)
"Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul."
- Peggy Fleming
(Related: Soul, Heart)
"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."
- Ferdinand Foch
(Related: Soul, Earth, Fire)
"Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish."
- Jean de La Fontaine
(Related: Soul, Man)
"For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas."
- Gerald R. Ford
(Related: Men, Women, Soul, Ideas, Church, Mind, School)
"With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion."
- Harrison Ford
(Related: Movies, Army, Emotion, Enemies, Games)
"God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds."
- Garrett Fort
(Related: God, Soul, Evil, Will)
"The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces."
- Anatole France
(Related: Soul)
"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
- Anatole France
(Related: Soul)
"Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?"
- Anne Frank
(Related: Soul)
"If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about."
- Aretha Franklin
(Related: Soul, Song)
"Every single soul is a poem."
- Michael Franti
(Related: Soul)
"Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
- Morgan Freeman
(Related: Sacrifice, Soul, Compassion, Endurance, Man, Spirit, Voice)
"Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?"
- Marilyn French
(Related: God, Soul, Chaos)
"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?""
- Sigmund Freud
(Related: Soul, Question, Research, Want, Woman, Years)
"There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Soul, Police, World)
"The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high."
- J. William Fulbright
(Related: Soul, America)
"What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?"
- Robert Fulghum
(Related: Soul, Man, Profit, World)
"Anger is one of the sinews of the soul."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Anger, Soul)
"My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Soul, Heart, Friend, Mouse)
"If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: People, Greatness, Ability, Artist, Deep, Sense)
"When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn't come from your spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: Soul, Day, Eyes, Fans, Injustice, Spirit, Want, World)
"It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: Heresy)
"When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Beauty, Soul, Moon, Sunset, Wonders, Worship)
"To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Life, Soul, Body, Liberty, Man, Starvation)
"I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Soul, Being, Children, Evil, Inheritance, Purity)
"The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Life, Soul, Thought, Purpose, Act, Body)
"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Soul, People, Culture, Nation)
"It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Soul, Belief, Strength)
"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Soul, Body, Spiritual)
"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Soul, Heart, Longing, Prayer, Weakness, Words)
"I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully."
- Jerry Garcia
(Related: Music, People, Now, Trying, Years)
"Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world."
- Mary Garden
(Related: Being, Children, Evil, Parents, Spiritual, World)
"I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul."
- Ava Gardner
(Related: Trust, Soul, Heart, Acting)
"Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Life, Soul, People, Body, Nation, Spirit)
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
- Judy Garland
(Related: Soul, Heart)
"'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul."
- Judy Garland
(Related: Soul)
"You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul."
- Charles de Gaulle
(Related: Soul, Giving, Skin)
"Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen."
- Theophile Gautier
(Related: Soul, Eyes)
"Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking."
- Marvin Gaye
(Related: Marriage, Right)
"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things."
- Clifford Geertz
(Related: Soul, People, Literature)
"He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul."
- David Lloyd George
(Related: Soul)
"The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre."
- Robin Gibb
(Related: Music, Soul)
"I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover."
- Beth Gibbons
(Related: Soul, Heart, Song)
"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Soul)
"Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Love, Sea)
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Suffering)
"What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?"
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Soul, Dream, Difference)
"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Love, Dance, Sea)
"Sin is whatever obscures the soul."
- Andre Gide
(Related: Soul, Sin)
"Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers."
- Alma Gluck
(Related: Soul, American, Day)
"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Beauty, Soul, May)
"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul."
- Vincent Van Gogh
(Related: Life, Soul)
"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way."
- Vincent Van Gogh
(Related: Soul, May)
"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process."
- Vincent Van Gogh
(Related: Work, Soul, Heart, Mind)
"Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul."
- Nikolai Gogol
(Related: Soul, Body, May)
"It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way."
- Jeff Goldblum
(Related: Character, Play)
"The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul."
- Emma Goldman
(Related: History, Men, Women, Soul, Progress, Blood, Body, Cause, Man, Right, Woman)
"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."
- Emma Goldman
(Related: Education, Sympathy, Soul, Wealth, Effort, Generosity, Kindness, Treasure)
"No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."
- Al Gore
(Related: Soul, Victory, Defeat, Glory, Loss)
"Anything that I write comes from the soul."
- Martin Gore
(Related: Soul)
"Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?"
- Billy Graham
(Related: Soul, Gain, World, Worth)
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Soul, Dance, Body, Language)
"Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul."
- Wavy Gravy
(Related: Soul)
"For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds."
- Robert Greene
(Related: Deeds, Heaven)
"The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence."
- Simon Greenleaf
(Related: Life, Soul, Difference, Facts, Importance, Principles)
"Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through."
- Germaine Greer
(Related: Soul, Instinct, May, Pain, Spirit, Spiritual)
"To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love."
- Alex Grey
(Related: Life, Love, Nature, Fate, Spirits)
"It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time."
- Francis J. Grimke
(Related: Time, Soul, Man, Will)
"Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul."
- Robert Grosseteste
(Related: Soul, Heart, Will)
"Humble souls are fearful of their own strength."
- William Gurnall
(Related: Strength)
"Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer."
- William Gurnall
(Related: Soul, Prayer, Waiting)
"As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster."
- Thomas Guthrie
(Related: Art, Nature, Grace, Treatment)
"In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps."
- Sammy Hagar
(Related: Soul, Heart, Ballads, Moments)
"I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?"
- Paul Haggis
(Related: Family, Work, Soul, Artist, Man)
"I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul."
- John B. S. Haldane
(Related: Health, Soul)
"Punctuality is the soul of business."
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
(Related: Business, Soul, Punctuality)
"Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure."
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: God, Soul, Earth)
"The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?"
- Dag Hammarskjold
(Related: Soul, Strength, Balance, Body, Law)
"Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day."
- Dag Hammarskjold
(Related: Time, Soul, Christmas, Day, Summer, Waiting)
"Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul."
- Armand Hammer
(Related: Soul, Hurt)
"The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul."
- Charles Handy
(Related: Money, Work, Soul, People, Growth, Ability, Excellence, Respect, World)
"It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it."
- Lee Haney
(Related: Soul, Heart, Body)
"You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul."
- Mariska Hargitay
(Related: Mother, Soul)
"I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it."
- Keith Haring
(Related: Art, Imagination, Soul, People, Humanity, Propaganda)
"I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul."
- Renny Harlin
(Related: Experience, Soul, Reason)
"As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice."
- Ben Harper
(Related: Songs, Style, Voice)
"To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed."
- Brian Harris
(Related: Music, Poetry, Soul, Blood, Privilege)
"I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself."
- Ray Harryhausen
(Related: Soul, People, Now)
"There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives."
- Josephine Hart
(Related: Soul, Geography)
"There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it."
- Mickey Hart
(Related: Music, Soul, Nothing)
"What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music."
- Mickey Hart
(Related: Music, Soul, People)
"I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music."
- P. J. Harvey
(Related: Music, Soul)
"My soul is fine, thanks."
- Juliana Hatfield
(Related: Soul)
"The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying."
- Olivia De Havilland
(Related: Business, Talent, Soul, Being)
"There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying."
- Colin Hay
(Related: Soul, Character, Building)
"Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds."
- Bob Hayes
(Related: Experience, Travel, Soul, Awareness)
"Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone."
- Rutherford B. Hayes
(Related: Nature, Soul, Cooperation, Human nature, Occupation, Will)
"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you."
- Woody Hayes
(Related: Soul, Hell, Nothing)
"Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Soul, Expression, Grace, Harmony)
"Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Soul, Expression, Harmony)
"The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Soul, Journey, Liberty)
"Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Books, Open, Secrets)
"Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it."
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(Related: Life, Soul, Animals, Body, Possession, Right, Will)
"Music is the soul of language."
- Max Heindel
(Related: Music, Soul, Language)
"There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions."
- Ernest Hello
(Related: Love, Men)
"I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul."
- William Ernest Henley
(Related: Soul, Fate)
"It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."
- William Ernest Henley
(Related: Soul)
"The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years."
- Audrey Hepburn
(Related: Beauty, Soul, Caring, Passion, Woman, Years)
"Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls."
- Heraclitus
(Related: People, Eyes, Poor)
"It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Soul, Heart, Desire, Wishes)
"Never was a miser a brave soul."
- George Herbert
(Related: Soul, Miser)
"From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived."
- Georg Hermes
(Related: Soul, Universe)
"Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine."
- Georg Hermes
"The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold."
- Georg Hermes
(Related: Soul, Pilgrimage)
"The destiny of man is in his own soul."
- Herodotus
(Related: Soul, Destiny, Man)
"The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam."
- Robert Herrick
(Related: Home, Soul, Body, Poor)
"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans."
- James Herriot
(Related: Love, Gratitude, Soul, Animals, Being, Loyalty)
"Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate."
- Barbara Hershey
(Related: Love, Soul, First, Sight, Years)
"Wisdom is 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."
- Herman Hesse
(Related: Art, Life, Wisdom, Soul, Thoughts, Feeling, Nothing, Preparation, Thinking, Unity)
"As a body everyone is single, as a soul never."
- Hermann Hesse
(Related: Soul, Body)
"The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity."
- Patricia Hewitt
(Related: Soul, Concern)
"To this light, then, would I recommend all, with mine own soul, - to this sure way of salvation."
- Elias Hicks
(Related: Soul, Light, Salvation)
"The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul."
- Gilbert Highet
(Related: Power, Soul, Wealth, Duty, Man, Needs)
"Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."
- Napolean Hill
(Related: Dreams, Soul, Children, Visions)
"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."
- Napoleon Hill
(Related: Dreams, Soul, Children, Visions)
"We forget that the soul has its own ancestors."
- James Hillman
(Related: Soul, Forget)
"As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity."
- James Hillman
(Related: Soul, Body, Circumstances, Myth, Necessity, Parents)
"Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul."
- James Hillman
(Related: Change, Time, Soul, Losing, Loss, Want)
"The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten."
- James Hillman
(Related: Soul, Body, Choice, Circumstances, May, Parents)
"Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance."
- Benny Hinn
(Related: God, Soul, Body, Importance)
"I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow."
- David Hobson
(Related: Soul, Challenge, Eye, Joy, Nostalgia, Novelty, Patience, Plants)
"My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet."
- Samuel Hoffenstein
(Related: Diet, Soul)
"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Compassion, Impulses)
"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Soul, Hope, Disappointment, Expectation)
"The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Soul, Weakness)
"When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium."
- Hans Hofmann
(Related: Art, Soul, Emotion, Expression, Impulses, May)
"Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this."
- Thomas Holcroft
"The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on."
- J. G. Holland
(Related: Soul, Body)
"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Related: Soul, Man, Worth)
"Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Related: Soul, Thoughts, Blood, Language)
"The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Related: Men, Religion, Women, Key, Mothers, World)
"Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired."
- Homer
(Related: Soul, Friends)
"The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred."
- Soichiro Honda
(Related: Life, Soul, Value)
"The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul."
- Herbert Hoover
(Related: Women, Soul, Children, Killing)
"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"
- Horace
(Related: Soul, Cure, Eye)
"To buy happiness is to sell soul."
- Douglas Horton
(Related: Happiness, Soul)
"It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony."
- Laurence Housman
(Related: Death, Love, Religion, Soul, Drama, Harmony)
"When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul."
- Julia Ward Howe
(Related: God, Soul, Body, End, Light, Mind, Months, Possession, Will)
"It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom."
- William Dean Howells
(Related: Soul, Voice)
"When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul."
- Langston Hughes
(Related: Soul, Care)
"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop."
- Robert Hughes
(Related: Soul, Machine, Tools, Will)
"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Soul)
"The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Soul)
"There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Soul, Thoughts, Body, Moments)
"There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Soul, Sea, Sky)
"I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Love, Soul, Man, Old, Poor, Stars, Water)
"I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!"
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Art, Soul, Earth, Grave, Will)
"One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Soul, Will)
"Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Love, Nature, Soul, Paradise)
"Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Soul, Survival, Dawn, Light, Nations, Night, Stars)
"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Soul, Attitude, Thoughts, Body, Moments)
"Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed."
- Alberta Hunter
(Related: Baby, Hurt, Spirit)
"But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach."
- Isabelle Huppert
(Related: Music, Soul, Film)
"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."
- Zora Neale Hurston
(Related: Love, Soul)
"We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons."
- Saddam Hussein
(Related: Sacrifice, America, Children, Iraq, Weapons, Will)
"God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible."
- King Hussein I
(Related: God, Truth, Ideas, Beliefs, Help)
"We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage."
- Michael Hutchence
(Related: Soul, Thought, People)
"My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger."
- Aldous Huxley
(Related: Soul, Fate)
"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul."
- Aldous Huxley
(Related: Soul, Labor)
"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."
- Aldous Huxley
(Related: Travel, God, Soul, Heart, Strength, Desire, Hunger, Man, May, Mind, Road)
"To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others."
- Jacky Ickx
(Related: Soul, Heart, Memory, Mind, State, Will)
"The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation."
- Robert Iger
(Related: Soul, Heart, Creativity, Company, Innovation)
"The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts."
- Dean Inge
(Related: Soul, Thoughts, Leisure)
"What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man."
- Robert Green Ingersoll
(Related: Love, Soul, Heart, Eyes, Liberty, Light, Man)
"All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate."
- Charles Inglis
(Related: Soul, Principles)
"A man with a soul is not like every other man."
- Eugene Ionesco
(Related: Soul, Man)
"The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Soul, Body)
"Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Life, Soul, Body, Universe)
"There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations."
- Washington Irving
(Related: Soul)
"Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world."
- Charles Ives
(Related: Expression, May, Meaning, World)
"I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life."
- Andrew Jackson
(Related: Life, Soul, May, Obligation, states)
"Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy."
- Jesse Jackson
(Related: Soul, Debate, Democracy)
"From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation."
- Jesse Jackson
(Related: Soul, People, Body, Nation)
"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Faith, Health, Soul, Man, Prayer)
"Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation."
- Michael Jackson
(Related: Love, Truth, Soul, Dream, Heart, Creation, Tomorrow)
"I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul."
- Phil Jackson
(Related: Soul, Body, Mind)
"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."
- Harriet Ann Jacobs
(Related: Nature, Soul, Spring)
"If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls."
- Harriet Ann Jacobs
(Related: Slavery, Want, Will)
"Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul."
- Alice James
(Related: Soul, Mind, Pain)
"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."
- William James
(Related: Life, Soul, Habit, Blame, Environment, Thinking)
"That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff."
- Al Jarreau
(Related: Evolution)
"The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls."
- Karl Jaspers
(Related: Life, Community, Order)
"Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul."
- Karl Jaspers
(Related: Morality, Soul, Philosophy, Practice, Serenity)
"The city of Wildwood has been fantastic in helping us and supporting this event. This is a small way of the Soul saying thanks to our fans."
- Ron Jaworski
(Related: Soul, Fans, Saying)
"The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects."
- Lord Jeffrey
(Related: Complaining, May)
"And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro race, accepting their ways."
- Warren Jeffs
(Related: God, Soul, Corruption, Forget, Race, Spirit, World)
"It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it."
- Maria Jeritza
(Related: Music, Soul, Action, Character, Artist, Conviction, Joy, Wishes)
"Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Peace, Soul, Earth, Heaven, Will)
"I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul."
- Joan Jett
(Related: Soul)
"I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time."
- Jewel
(Related: Time, Soul, Grace)
"As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God."
- John Jewel
(Related: God, Soul, Knowledge, Body, Man)
"The word of God is that unto our souls, which our soul is unto our body."
- John Jewel
(Related: God, Soul, Body, Word)
"At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips."
- Allen Johnson
(Related: Soul, People, Friend, July, Liberty, Name, Old, Rest)
"Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within."
- Claudia Johnson
(Related: Art, Soul, Man, World)
"In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind."
- Eyvind Johnson
(Related: History, Time, Soul, Body, Mankind, Present, Suffering, World)
"The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition."
- James Weldon Johnson
(Related: Soul, Battle, Being, First, Intellect, Learning, Right, Today)
"Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Soul, Promise)
"You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things."
- Janis Joplin
(Related: Soul, People, Myth)
"Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Religion, Superstition)
"Imagination is the eye of the soul."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Imagination, Soul, Eye)
"My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions."
- James Joyce
(Related: Soul)
"Silence is refreshment for the soul."
- Wynonna Judd
(Related: Soul, Silence)
"I am most proud that I stayed true to the music of my soul."
- Wynonna Judd
(Related: Music, Soul)
"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
- Carl Jung
(Related: Gratitude, Soul, Feelings, Appreciation, Curriculum, Teachers)
"I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church."
- Peter Jurasik
(Related: God, Soul, People, Church, Spirituality)
"Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth."
- Franz Kafka
(Related: Life, Hesitation)
"If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth."
- Franz Kafka
(Related: Life, Hesitation)
"Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul."
- Louis Kahn
(Related: Architecture, Time, Soul, College, Help, Mind, Past)
"The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul."
- Wassily Kandinsky
(Related: Soul, Artist, Eye)
"It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking up and having this idea for a complete story - from start to finish - in my head, so I jotted it down, then later began writing the thing."
- Paul Kane
(Related: Dream, Idea, Night, Waking, Writing)
"Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul."
- Donna Karan
(Related: Soul, Heart, Body)
"Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles."
- Alex Karras
(Related: Soul, Spirit)
"There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record."
- Yousuf Karsh
(Related: Soul, Attitude, Eyes, Man, Mind, Spirit)
"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul."
- Elia Kazan
(Related: Lie, Soul)
"My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry."
- Nikos Kazantzakis
(Related: Work, Soul)
"Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject."
- John Keats
(Related: Poetry, Soul)
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
- John Keats
(Related: Intelligence, Soul, School, World)
"A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls."
- Sam Keen
(Related: Society, People, Economy, Job, Spirit, Vocation)
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
- Helen Keller
(Related: Experience, Success, Soul, Character, Ambition, Quiet, Suffering)
"We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace."
- Thomas R. Kelly
(Related: Nature, Peace, Soul, Thought, God, Poverty)
"Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13."
- Alicia Keys
(Related: Soul, Wonder)
"Soul music is timeless."
- Alicia Keys
(Related: Music, Soul)
"I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all."
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
(Related: Soul)
"The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels."
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
(Related: Soul, Jewels, Words)
"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires."
- Omar Khayyam
(Related: Soul, Solitude, Thoughtful)
"I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm."
- William Kidd
(Related: Soul, Harm, Hell)
"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo."
- Soren Kierkegaard
(Related: Life, Thoughts, Nothing, Paradox, Paradoxes)
"Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God."
- Soren Kierkegaard
(Related: Life, Love, God, Lovers, Prayer, Whisper)
"Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul."
- Coretta Scott King
(Related: Women, Soul, Nation)
"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Sympathy, Soul, Concern, Giving, May, Pity)
"Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries."
- Ben Kingsley
(Related: Work, Soul, Career, Information)
"A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Trust, Soul, Friend, Faults, Man, Woman)
"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
- Barbara Kingsolver
(Related: Living, Mind)
"People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around."
- Barbara Kingsolver
(Related: Dreams, Soul, People, Day, Will)
"I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: People, Animals, Plants)
"If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine."
- Rudyard Kipling
(Related: Mother, Soul, Body)
"When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star."
- Sally Kirkland
(Related: Soul, Growing up)
"I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained."
- Sally Kirkland
(Related: Soul, Nothing)
"For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul."
- Yves Klein
(Related: Soul, Character, Being, Race)
"It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich."
- Olga Korbut
(Related: Soul)
"In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul."
- Jerzy Kosinski
(Related: Soul, Clouds, Light, London, Rain, Weather)
"It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul."
- Sofia Kovalevskaya
(Related: Soul, Being)
"This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans."
- Dennis Kucinich
(Related: Soul, Corporate, Democrats, Difference, Party, Republicans, Struggle)
"I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it."
- Ted Kulongoski
(Related: Soul, Heart, Ideology, Party, Quick, Tradition)
"The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking."
- Charles Lamb
(Related: Beauty, Soul, Belief, Possibility, Appearance, Body, Error)
"Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone."
- Jaron Lanier
(Related: Soul, Style, Tools, Will)
"The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph."
- James Larkin
(Related: Publicity, World)
"When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place."
- Yusef Lateef
(Related: Beauty, Soul, Body, Mind, Order)
"The Lord receive my soul, and have mercy on me, and bless this kingdom with peace and charity, that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them."
- William Laud
(Related: Peace, Soul, Christian, Blood, Charity, May, Mercy)
"Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares."
- William Law
(Related: Death, Life, Christian, Separation)
"Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God."
- William Law
(Related: Love, God, Soul, Pity, World)
"Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Experience, Soul, Purpose, Blood, Deep, Myth)
"It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Soul, Body, Nothing)
"The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Beauty, Soul, Needs)
"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
(Related: Anger, Soul, Intuition, Justice, Pity)
"The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Soul, Being)
"The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Soul, Mind)
"Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Soul, Deep, Nothing)
"One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Love, Soul, Journey, Suffering)
"The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written."
- Jerome Lawrence
(Related: Soul, Mind, Writing)
"I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?"
- Martin Lawrence
(Related: Soul, Key, Sound, Want)
"I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside."
- Nigella Lawson
(Related: Soul, People)
"We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love."
- Irving Layton
(Related: Love, Soul)
"Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time."
- Timothy Leary
(Related: Time, Soul, Learning)
"Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process."
- Geddy Lee
(Related: Soul, Being, Nothing, Song, Years)
"I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding."
- John Lennon
(Related: Love, Life, Peace, Soul, Answers, Divinity, Purity, Questions, Songs, Understanding)
"Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not."
- Phil Lesh
(Related: Soul)
"I am with you heart and soul in the great cause to which you are devoting all your energy and your life."
- Frank Leslie
(Related: Life, Soul, Heart, Cause, Energy)
"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."
- C. S. Lewis
(Related: Soul, Body)
"He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light, no joy in life. He is a poor, poor man."
- Robert Ley
(Related: Life, Soul, Ideals, Joy, Light, Man, Nothing, Poor)
"And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans."
- Daniel Libeskind
(Related: Development, Americans)
"Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever."
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
(Related: Peace, Soul, Nothing, Opinion)
"God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves."
- Alphonsus Liguori
(Related: Love, God)
"Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness."
- Alphonsus Liguori
(Related: God, Mother, Hope, Goodness, Pleasure)
"Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins."
- Alphonsus Liguori
(Related: God, Humility, Ingratitude, Past, Respect)
"There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems."
- Walter Lippmann
(Related: Soul, Being, Discovery, Help, Nothing, Problems)
"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
(Related: Men, Purpose, Consciousness, Man)
"A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul."
- Jesse Livermore
(Related: Soul, Being, Forget, Loss, Wrong)
"Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Death, Soul, Body, Existence)
"They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Death, Soul, Body)
"I know that Julia has been given to me for my spiritual growth, and this moment is perfect for us both. I know that I love her, and I know she's my soul mate."
- Kenny Loggins
(Related: Love, Soul, Growth, Spiritual)
"But the mind is here accepted not for the soul, but for that which is the more excellent in the soul."
- Peter Lombard
(Related: Soul, Mind)
"The human voice is the organ of the soul."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Related: Soul, Voice)
"With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand."
- Federico Garcia Lorca
(Related: Fear, Road, Silence)
"He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven."
- Christopher Love
(Related: Men, Soul, Heaven)
"Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing."
- Christopher Love
(Related: Peace, God, Soul, Joy)
"There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street."
- H. P. Lovecraft
(Related: Will)
"If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty."
- Richard Lovelace
(Related: Love, Soul, Angels, Freedom, Liberty)
"My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy."
- Juliette G. Low
(Related: Soul, Heart, Purpose, Future, Girls, Will)
"Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls."
- James Russell Lowell
(Related: Beauty, Poetry, God, Truth, Men)
"Well, we played with Soul Coughing once for like two days, that was pretty cool. I mean they were all good, you can pull a great experience from everything."
- Mike Lowry
(Related: Experience, Soul, Pretty)
"So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul."
- Ignatius Loyola
(Related: Love, Soul, Simplicity, Will)
"It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind."
- Lucretius
(Related: Soul, Wealth, Mind)
"Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Art, Music, God, Soul)
"Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."
- Douglas MacArthur
(Related: Soul, Enthusiasm, Skin, Years)
"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."
- Douglas MacArthur
(Related: Age, Soul, Body, Quitting)
"I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?"
- Douglas MacArthur
(Related: Time, Life, Soul, American, Honor, Journey, Symbol, Will)
"I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul."
- Kyle MacLachlan
(Related: Soul, Evil, Shakespeare)
"The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary."
- Mary MacLane
(Related: Life, Time, Soul, Emotions, Months, Now)
"Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul."
- Mary MacLane
(Related: Quality, Genius, Soul, Heart, Body, Woman)
"I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them."
- Elle Macpherson
(Related: Children, Choices, Support)
"To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness."
- Maurice Maeterlinck
(Related: Soul, Unhappiness)
"I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life."
- Tobey Maguire
(Related: Beauty, Happiness, Life, Peace, Soul, Knowledge, Character, Innocence)
"God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul."
- Nicolas Malebranche
(Related: God, Soul, Feelings, Body, Communication, Laws)
"Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone."
- Nicolas Malebranche
(Related: God, Soul, Body, Sense, United)
"We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls."
- Michelle Malkin
(Related: Now, Shame)
"Every soul is a melody which needs renewing."
- Stephane Mallarme
(Related: Soul, Needs)
"Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee."
- David Mallet
(Related: Soul, Despair, Support)
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
- Nelson Mandela
(Related: Society, Soul, Children)
"I would say our sound is soul pop."
- Taryn Manning
(Related: Soul, Sound)
"Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it."
- Patrick Marber
(Related: Soul, People, Character, Play, Trying)
"The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment."
- Herbert Marcuse
(Related: Home, Soul, People, Kitchen)
"Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man."
- Orison Swett Marden
(Related: Soul, Clouds, Existence, Flowers, Man, Rivers, Stars)
"Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul."
- Teena Marie
(Related: Soul, Artist, Day, End, Race, Skin)
"I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul."
- Mary Ellen Mark
(Related: Soul, People)
"Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."
- Edwin Markham
(Related: Soul, Victory, Defeat, Glory, May)
"Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along."
- Marc Maron
(Related: Business, Soul, Devil, Ego, Will)
"But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove."
- Jose Marti
(Related: Love, Greed, Privilege, Spirit, Sun, Will)
"The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine."
- Walter Martin
(Related: Success, Soul, May, Medicine, Now)
"A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties."
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Soul, Ideas)
"A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties."
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Soul, Ideas)
"The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths."
- Groucho Marx
(Related: Time, Life, Soul, Eternity, First, Living, Mind, Words)
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
- Karl Marx
(Related: Religion, Soul, People, Heart, Opium, World)
"How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?"
- Edgar Lee Masters
(Related: Life, Soul, Man)
"What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know."
- Mary Stuart Masterson
(Related: Soul, People, Character)
"Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul."
- Henri Matisse
(Related: Soul)
"And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art."
- Kathy Mattea
(Related: Art, Soul, Fact, Perfection, Worship)
"The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(Related: Nature, Soul, Artist, Water)
"No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(Related: Soul, Christian)
"Impropriety is the soul of wit."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(Related: Soul, Wit)
"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(Related: Soul, Adventure, Artist, Expression, Production)
"Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul."
- Andre Maurois
(Related: Age, Soul, Body, Evil, Feeling, Generations, Hair, Indifference, Old)
"The apostle enters upon his subject thus - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no power but of God: the powers that be, are ordained of God."
- Jonathan Mayhew
(Related: Power, God, Soul)
"My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Soul, Deep, Harmony, Lies, Universe)
"With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Soul, Husbands)
"Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness."
- Bill McCartney
(Related: Dreams, Men, Greatness, Magic)
"Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind."
- Bryant H. McGill
(Related: Soul, Enthusiasm, Energy, Force, Mind)
"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."
- Roger McGough
(Related: Poetry, Father, Soul, People, Performance, Children, Comedy, Dying, Reading, Talking, Want)
"The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation."
- George McGovern
(Related: War, History, Soul, Cancer, Disaster, Eating, Nation)
"Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry."
- David O. McKay
(Related: Soul)
"Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men."
- David O. McKay
(Related: Happiness, Love, Men, Peace, Compassion, Earth, Light, Will)
"I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground."
- John McLaughlin
(Related: Music, Jazz, School)
"The type of music that I love to sing would have to be more bluesy and jazzy and more soul-like 'cause I love to belt when it comes to singing, so I guess bigger songs are what I lean more towards."
- Thia Megia
(Related: Love, Music, Soul, Singing, Songs)
"People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag."
- Christopher Meloni
(Related: Time, People, Film)
"There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath."
- Herman Melville
(Related: Soul, Mystery, Sea)
"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."
- Herman Melville
(Related: Soul, Hope, Eternity, Struggle)
"These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words."
- Felix Mendelssohn
(Related: Music, Soul, Words)
"It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Talent, Soul, Career)
"There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by."
- George Meredith
(Related: Soul, Body, May, Nothing, Profit)
"Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!"
- George Meredith
(Related: Soul)
"Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ."
- Thomas Merton
(Related: Peace, Soul, Heart, Christ, Eyes, Feet, Joy, Open)
"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul."
- Thomas Merton
(Related: Life, Soul, Earth, Man, Plants)
"The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly."
- Olivier Messiaen
(Related: Soul, Heart, Being, Body, Consciousness)
"It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place."
- Pat Metheny
(Related: Soul, Hardware, Spirit)
"My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness."
- Michelangelo
(Related: Soul, Earth, Heaven)
"The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments."
- Arthur Middleton
(Related: Life, Soul, Man, Medicine, Office)
"The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
(Related: God, Soul, Sky)
"Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder."
- Alice Miller
(Related: Children, Murder, Will)
"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
- Henry Miller
(Related: Life, Music, People, Forget, Interest, Literature, World)
"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
- Henry Miller
(Related: Life, Music, People, Forget, Interest, Literature, World)
"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."
- Henry Miller
(Related: Chance)
"Your face makes my soul want to eat chocolate pudding!"
- Andy Milonakis
(Related: Soul, Want)
"He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon."
- John Milton
(Related: Soul, Thoughts, Light, May, Sun)
"And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice."
- Little Milton
(Related: Voice)
"When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay."
- Octave Mirbeau
(Related: People, Tears)
"The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness."
- Joan Miro
(Related: Soul, Coolness, Fire)
"The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!"
- Maria Mitchell
(Related: Soul, Learning, World)
"Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty."
- Moliere
(Related: Soul, Solitude)
"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Kiss, Soul, Hollywood)
"One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind."
- Thomas S. Monson
(Related: Mankind)
"The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Life, Soul, Purpose)
"The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Variety)
"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Soul, Courage, Stability, Valor)
"Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Love, Soul, Dream, Life, Eyes, World)
"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Soul, Senses)
"Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Soul, Poverty)
"The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Open)
"This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul."
- Eugenio Montale
(Related: Poetry, Soul, Will)
"Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world."
- Alfred A. Montapert
(Related: Faith, Power, People, Control, Negative, Positive, Thoughts, Fate, World)
"The end of all good music is to affect the soul."
- Claudio Monteverdi
(Related: Music, Soul, End)
"I hosted Soul train but I listen to everything."
- Shemar Moore
(Related: Soul)
"Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world."
- Thomas Moore
(Related: Work, Soul, Right, World)
"Rock'n'roll saved my soul."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: Soul)
"If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part."
- Hannah More
(Related: Faith, Life, God, Soul, Heart, Body, Living, Man)
"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."
- Thomas More
(Related: Home, Soul, Day, Importance, Practice, Simplicity)
"A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works."
- William Morris
(Related: Imagination, Work, Soul, Body, Help, Man, Memory, Mind, Will)
"Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence."
- Jim Morrison
(Related: Sex, Soul, Body, Open, Prison, Senses)
"I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments."
- Jim Morrison
(Related: Soul, Moments)
"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments."
- Jim Morrison
(Related: Soul, Being, Moments)
"The choice that you, as a Soul, have in relation to anything is always to be loving. Do you understand that this is the divine purpose that all of us as humans have been given - to love unconditionally?"
- John Morton
(Related: Love, Soul, Purpose, Choice)
"My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me."
- Nana Mouskouri
(Related: Food, Soul, First, Friends, Songs)
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(Related: Imagination, Intelligence, Love, Genius, Soul)
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
- John Muir
(Related: Beauty, Nature, Soul, Strength, Body, May, Needs, Play)
"That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases."
- Max Muller
(Related: Home, God, Soul, Earth, Reality, Sickness)
"Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light."
- Max Muller
(Related: Time, Soul, First, Light, Now, Open, Poor, Sun)
"Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul; with all his strength and with all his will."
- Max Muller
(Related: Love, Heart, Soul, Strength, Will)
"I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street."
- Max Muller
(Related: Soul, Secrets)
"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul."
- Edvard Munch
(Related: Nature, Soul, Eye)
"You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."
- Hector Hugh Munro
(Related: Love, Soul, Being, Instinct, Man, Oysters)
"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods."
- Iris Murdoch
(Related: Art, Soul, Gods, Cunning)
"Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul."
- Gilbert Murray
(Related: Soul, Body, Comfort, Enemy, Man, Nothing, Promotion, Right)
"The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much."
- W. H. Murray
(Related: Soul)
"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it."
- Edward R. Murrow
(Related: Soul, America, Dissent, Opposition)
"May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace."
- Yoweri Museveni
(Related: Peace, Soul, May, Parliament, President, Rest)
"Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss."
- Guru Nanak
(Related: Soul, Solitude)
"Tennis has given me soul."
- Martina Navratilova
(Related: Soul, Tennis)
"Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man."
- Liam Neeson
(Related: Soul, Thought, Acting, Actor, Artist, Man, Spirit)
"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Peace, War, Soul, People, Absence, Mind, Nations, Serenity, State)
"A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Age, History, Soul, Nation, Old)
"My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive."
- Horatio Nelson
(Related: Happiness, Soul, Country, Glory, Sin)
"The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us."
- Knute Nelson
(Related: Soul, Body, Enemy, Spirit)
"When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation."
- Gerard De Nerval
(Related: Life, Soul, Thought, Dream, Disorder, Mind, Reflection, Religious)
"Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature."
- Gerard De Nerval
(Related: Nature, Soul)
"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature."
- Gerard De Nerval
(Related: Nature, Soul)
"I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music."
- Aaron Neville
(Related: Music, Soul)
"You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth."
- Wayne Newton
(Related: Life, Soul, Growth, Mountains)
"The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul."
- Ben Nicholson
(Related: Soul, Corruption, Greed)
"The corruption of the American soul is consumerism."
- Ben Nicholson
(Related: Soul, American, Corruption)
"Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: Soul)
"There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: Gratitude, Appreciation, Favors)
"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."
- Anais Nin
(Related: Travel, states)
"Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?"
- Albert J. Nock
(Related: Nature, Soul, Thought, Body, Man, Spiritual)
"Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time."
- Emil Nolde
(Related: Art, Religion, Time, Soul, Race)
"We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body."
- Larry Norman
(Related: Soul, Body, Spirit, Worship)
"Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you."
- Marsha Norman
(Related: Dreams, Soul, Writing)
"I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely."
- Kim Novak
(Related: Time, Soul, Thought, Right)
"If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar."
- Krist Novoselic
(Related: Soul, Guitar)
"We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul."
- Conor Oberst
(Related: Soul, Numbers)
"Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul."
- Edna O'Brien
(Related: Soul, Mind, Writers)
"When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business."
- Flannery O'Connor
(Related: Business, God, May, Worry, Writer)
"One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise."
- Clifford Odets
(Related: Time, Life, Soul, First, Night, Quiet)
"Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman."
- Maureen O'Hara
(Related: Soul, Deep)
"Ah, dearer than my soul. Dearer than light, or life, or fame."
- John Oldham
(Related: Life, Soul, Fame, Light)
"The cynicism that you have is not your real soul."
- Yoko Ono
(Related: Soul, Cynicism)
"Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul."
- James Otis
(Related: Soul, Emotions, Man, May, Terror, Tyranny)
"But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes."
- James Otis
(Related: Soul, Conscience, Folly, Guilt, Malice, Name)
"Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul."
- Ovid
(Related: Nature, Soul, Eyes, Sight)
"Leanness of body and soul may go together."
- John Owen
(Related: Soul, Body, May)
"You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo."
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
(Related: Soul, Poor)
"Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be."
- Joy Page
(Related: Soul, Dream, Beliefs)
"You are the God-being that is here to create life, to breathe soul into your body, to walk this world as your own source of power, love, worth and life."
- Joy Page
(Related: Life, Love, Power, Soul, God, Body, World, Worth)
"People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all."
- Joy Page
(Related: People, Growth, Desire, Evil, Learning, Light, Right, Ugly, Wrong)
"Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society."
- Thomas Paine
(Related: Society, Suspicion)
"These are the times that try men's souls."
- Thomas Paine
(Related: Men)
"The camera looks into your soul."
- Joe Pantoliano
(Related: Soul)
"We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation."
- Franz von Papen
(Related: Power, Soul, Body, Followers, Nation, Want)
"But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?"
- Paracelsus
(Related: Soul, Body)
"The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable."
- Theodore Parker
(Related: Death, Soul, Brother, Body, Injustice, Miser, Poor)
"Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold."
- Theodore Parker
(Related: Truth, Soul, Man, Will)
"The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it."
- Blaise Pascal
(Related: Soul, Feeling, Immortality)
"Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else."
- Blaise Pascal
(Related: Nature, Time, Soul, Body, Necessity, Nothing)
"Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them."
- Jean Paul
(Related: Mountains, Storms)
"There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go."
- Jean Paul
(Related: Joy, World)
"There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof."
- Jean Paul
(Related: Flowers, Heaven)
"God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul."
- Jean Paul
(Related: God, Soul)
"Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church."
- Pope John Paul II
(Related: Family, Marriage, Church, Act, Will)
"The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost."
- M. Scott Peck
(Related: Change, History, Soul, Heart, Battle, Evil, May, Mind)
"Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense."
- William Penn
(Related: Love, Enjoyment, Lust, Reason, Sense)
"Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls."
- William Pennington
(Related: God, Father)
"Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?"
- Brian Perkins
(Related: Love, Soul, Women, Man)
"All is worthwhile if the soul is not small."
- Fernando Pessoa
(Related: Soul)
"The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul."
- Ralph Peters
(Related: Age, Technology, Soul, Paradox, Problems)
"A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect."
- William Petty
(Related: Effect)
"Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers."
- William Petty
(Related: Men, War, Wealth, Causes, Nation, Necessity)
"Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Soul, Now, Rap)
"Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls."
- Julia Phillips
(Related: People, Hollywood)
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
- Pablo Picasso
(Related: Art, Life, Purpose)
"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture."
- Pablo Picasso
(Related: Work, Soul, Grace)
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
- Pablo Picasso
(Related: Art, Life, Soul)
"The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold."
- Albert Pike
(Related: Truth, Soul, Body, Gold, Justice, Light, Medicine, Mind, Reason)
"Will is the dynamic soul-force."
- Albert Pike
(Related: Soul, Will)
"Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach."
- Pindar
(Related: Life, Soul)
"I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true."
- Luigi Pirandello
(Related: Dreams, Love, Time, Art, Heart, Soul, Mind, Writing)
"When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart."
- Camille Pissarro
(Related: Soul)
"To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils."
- Plato
(Related: Soul, Injustice, World)
"Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself."
- Plato
(Related: Soul, Talking)
"The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine."
- Plato
(Related: Soul, Vision, Eyes)
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
- Plato
(Related: Life, Music, Imagination, Soul, Charm, Law, Mind, Universe)
"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
(Related: Soul, Astronomy, Events, World)
"Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens."
- Plato
(Related: Life, First, Justice, State)
"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."
- Plato
(Related: Education, Music, Soul, Virtue, Sound)
"And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul."
- Plato
(Related: Food, Soul, Knowledge)
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."
- Plato
(Related: Soul, Astronomy, World)
"From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world."
- Andrei Platonov
(Related: Soul, Ugliness, Will, World)
"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
- Titus Maccius Plautus
(Related: Friendship, Soul)
"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"
- Edgar Allan Poe
(Related: Nature, Art, Soul, Imitation, Man, Name, Senses)
"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
- Edgar Allan Poe
(Related: Beauty, Soul, Development, Tears)
"Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Soul, Eyes, May, Merit, Pretty, Sight)
"Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Soul, Merit, Sight)
"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Nature, God, Soul, Body)
"The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics."
- Orson Pratt
(Related: Government, Nature, God, Soul, Mankind, Will)
"Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees."
- Marcel Proust
(Related: Soul, Trees)
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
- Marcel Proust
(Related: People)
"I don't think I do have a soul."
- Al Purdy
(Related: Soul)
"A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper."
- John Pym
(Related: Soul, Body, Parliament)
"Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body."
- Pythagoras
(Related: Soul, Body)
"The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil."
- Pythagoras
(Related: Art, Life, Soul, Winning, Evil)
"Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action."
- Francis Quarles
(Related: Life, Soul, Action, Honor, Meditation, Reward)
"Science without conscience is the death of the soul."
- Francois Rabelais
(Related: Death, Science, Soul, Conscience)
"Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter."
- Jean Racine
(Related: Love, Soul, Eyes, Fire, Silence, Voice)
"There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music."
- Bonnie Raitt
(Related: Music, Time, Living, Nothing)
"Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth."
- Ramakrishna
(Related: God, Truth, Soul)
"Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be."
- Ramakrishna
(Related: God, Son, Soul, Freedom, Mind)
"Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house."
- Ramakrishna
(Related: Soul, Body, Disease, Tax)
"The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization."
- Otto Rank
(Related: Soul, Civilization, Creativity, Meaning, Will)
"I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned."
- Lou Rawls
(Related: Time, Soul, Space)
"I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time."
- Lou Rawls
(Related: Time, Soul, Jazz, Public, Right)
"Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires."
- Eric S. Raymond
(Related: Corporate)
"It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul."
- Robert Redford
(Related: Art, Politics, Soul, Honor)
"Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself."
- Henry Reed
(Related: Experience, Soul, Force, Intuition)
"I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well."
- Haley Reinhart
(Related: Love, Music, Soul)
"God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul."
- Ernest Renan
(Related: God, Soul)
"In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul."
- Mary Renault
(Related: Love, Soul, Hatred)
"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."
- Anne Rice
(Related: God, Soul, Vision, Devil, Nothing)
"When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics."
- Frank Rich
(Related: Politics, Truth, Soul)
"Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul."
- Little Richard
(Related: Soul, Greed, Universe)
"Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit."
- George Ripley
(Related: Soul, Body, Spirit, Trinity)
"Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls."
- Antoine Rivarol
(Related: Gold, Sun)
"I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Soul)
"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."
- Tom Robbins
(Related: Business, Government, Soul, Force, Magic, Poor)
"Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering."
- Jane Roberts
(Related: Soul, Suffering)
"Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Love, Soul, Heart, Delight, Magic, Practice)
"The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures."
- Smokey Robinson
(Related: Soul, Spirit, Spiritual)
"Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Soul, Ambition, Moderation)
"One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach."
- Knute Rockne
(Related: Soul, Coach, Loss)
"The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others."
- Auguste Rodin
(Related: Men, Genius, Expression)
"God bless the roots! Body and soul are one."
- Theodore Roethke
(Related: God, Soul, Body)
"The soul has many motions, body one."
- Theodore Roethke
(Related: Soul, Body)
"What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance."
- Theodore Roethke
(Related: Soul, Circumstance, Madness, Nobility)
"Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that's why everybody loved him so much."
- Joe Rogan
(Related: Soul, People, Mind)
"The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought."
- Richard Rolle
(Related: Love, God, Soul, Thought, Heart)
"Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts."
- Henry Rollins
(Related: Love, Work, Soul, Hate)
"Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists."
- Alfred Rosenberg
(Related: History, Religion, Soul, Time, Artists, Blood, Heroes, World)
"It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls."
- Jean Rostand
(Related: Thoughts, May)
"Base souls have no faith in great individuals."
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
(Related: Faith)
"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one."
- John Ruskin
(Related: Religion, Poetry, Soul, Prophecy, World)
"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."
- John Ruskin
(Related: Education, Leading)
"All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul."
- John Ruskin
(Related: Art, Work, Soul, Body, Living)
"Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them."
- Henry Norris Russell
(Related: Men, Nature, Dreams, Confidence, Future, Order, Universe, Will)
"The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind."
- Vita Sackville-West
(Related: Soul, Growth, Mind, Writer)
"Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people."
- Anwar Sadat
(Related: Soul, People, Fear)
"I think I'm a soulful singer."
- Katey Sagal
"I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music."
- Katey Sagal
(Related: Music, Soul, Folk, Listening)
"Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect."
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
(Related: Music, Soul, Body, Intellect)
"The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul."
- George Sand
(Related: Beauty, Soul, Body, Eye, Eyes)
"Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age."
- George Sand
(Related: Age, Soul, Old, Right)
"All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible."
- George Santayana
(Related: Living, Wrong)
"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."
- George Santayana
(Related: Peace, Religion, Soul, Destiny, Help, Myth)
"A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world."
- George Santayana
(Related: Soul, World)
"Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body."
- George Santayana
(Related: Soul, Body, Nothing)
"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography."
- George Santayana
(Related: Soul, Geography)
"The Soul is the voice of the body's interests."
- George Santayana
(Related: Soul, Body, Voice)
"A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless."
- May Sarton
"I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul."
- Jean-Paul Sartre
(Related: Soul, Sin)
"I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted."
- Jean-Paul Sartre
"Valor is common but great souls are rare."
- Bernard Joseph Saurin
(Related: Valor)
"That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done."
- Adam Savage
(Related: Soul, Childhood, Job, May, Pretty)
"This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack."
- Richard Schickel
(Related: Soul)
"Memory is the personal journalism of the soul."
- Richard Schickel
(Related: Soul, Journalism, Memory)
"Great souls suffer in silence."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Silence)
"Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Soul, Disappointments)
"To live alone is the fate of all great souls."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
(Related: Fate)
"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them."
- Olive Schreiner
(Related: Men, Power, Being)
"Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan."
- Albert Schweitzer
(Related: Soul)
"Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life."
- Charles Scribner, Jr.
(Related: Life, Soul, Intellect, Language, Reading)
"I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well."
- Earl Scruggs
(Related: Travel, Soul, Musicians, Past, Play)
"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Related: Health, Life, Soul)
"Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way."
- Kate Seredy
(Related: Soul, Heart, Fear, Doubt, Mountains, Will)
"No one with a body full of aliments can have a luminous soul and other intellectual faculties. It is necessary to care for the body if we wish the spirit to function normally."
- Michael Servetus
(Related: Soul, Body, Care, Spirit)
"The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God."
- Anya Seton
(Related: God, Soul, May)
"Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain."
- Anna Seward
(Related: Soul, Blessings, Fate, Wrongs)
"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard."
- Anne Sexton
(Related: Soul)
"He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography."
- John Sexton
(Related: Soul, Photography)
"Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible."
- Amanda Seyfried
(Related: Music, Soul, Acting, Emotion, Emotions, Singing, Song)
"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man."
- Ernest Shackleton
(Related: Nature, God, Soul, Man)
"Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Soul, Joy, Lies)
"Brevity is the soul of wit."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Soul, Brevity, Wit)
"Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: God, Comfort, Darkness, Despair, Light, Now)
"If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Soul, Honor, Sin)
"My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise."
- Karl Shapiro
(Related: Lie, Soul, Day, Night, Now)
"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Art, Soul)
"We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Soul, Earth)
"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Soul, Battle, Blood, Horror)
"Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Soul, Class, Earth, Independence, Middle class)
"Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they'll see something from your heart and soul, and as a result will communicate your feeling and thought much better."
- Billy Sheehan
(Related: Music, Soul, Thought, People, Heart, Act, Feeling, Result, Will)
"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Related: Soul, Purpose, Eye, May, Mind, Nothing)
"But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Related: Soul, Humanity)
"The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Related: Soul, Man)
"Soul meets soul on lovers' lips."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Related: Soul, Lovers)
"The soul's joy lies in doing."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Related: Soul, Joy, Lies)
"Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does."
- Michael Shermer
(Related: Death, Soul)
"Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body."
- Michael Shermer
(Related: Soul, Body, Existence, Will)
"Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind."
- Murasaki Shikibu
(Related: Soul, Body, May)
"Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit."
- William Shirley
(Related: Soul, Greatness, Spirit, Words)
"I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil."
- Michelle Shocked
(Related: Faith, Soul, Devil)
"I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling."
- Michelle Shocked
(Related: Music, Soul, Feeling, Word)
"The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness."
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
(Related: Soul, Loneliness, Man, Sky, Water)
"I will devote my body and soul to the service of the people and the nation."
- Norodom Sihamoni
(Related: Soul, People, Body, Nation, Service, Will)
"Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?"
- Charles Simeon
(Related: Soul, Corruption, Man)
"Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
- Sivananda
(Related: Success, Soul, Heart, Intellect, Mind)
"Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Success, Soul, Heart, Mind)
"There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage."
- Christian Slater
(Related: Soul, Actor, End, London, Theatre, Tradition)
"We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts."
- Tavis Smiley
(Related: Power, Soul, Knowledge, Battle, Country, Facts, Information)
"I fed my ego, but not my soul."
- Yakov Smirnoff
(Related: Soul, Ego)
"The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman."
- Alexander Smith
(Related: Faith, God, Soul, Woman)
"The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other."
- Alexander Smith
(Related: Soul, Man, World)
"Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul."
- George A. Smith
(Related: Health, Men, Happiness, Soul, Growth, Contentment)
"Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself."
- George A. Smith
(Related: God, Soul, Evil, Freedom)
"First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat."
- Huston Smith
(Related: Religion, Soul, Community, First, Persuasion, Violence)
"I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad."
- Jada Pinkett Smith
(Related: Success, Soul, People, Devil, Want)
"Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: People, Conscience)
"If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Soul, Leisure, Losing, May)
"Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged."
- William Robertson Smith
(Related: Religion, Society, Community, End, Man, Welfare)
"When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul."
- Ralph W. Sockman
(Related: Soul, Sermons)
"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."
- Socrates
(Related: Life, God, Soul, End, Will)
"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine."
- Socrates
(Related: Men)
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
- Socrates
(Related: Soul, Evil, Words)
"Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel."
- King Solomon
(Related: Soul)
"Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul."
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
(Related: Soul, Goal, Man, World)