Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.
~By Geoffrey Fisher ~
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~
Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.
~By Jacques Bossuet ~
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
~By Robert Redford ~
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
~By Nikolai Gogol ~
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.
~By Eric Avery ~
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.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
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.
~By James Hillman ~
A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
~By Sophocles ~
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
~By Henry Fielding ~
There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.
~By Steven Spielberg ~
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.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
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.
~By J. G. Ballard ~
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.
~By Max Frisch ~
On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.
~By Claire Bloom ~
I am with you heart and soul in the great cause to which you are devoting all your energy and your life.
~By Frank Leslie ~
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
~By Miguel De Cervantes ~
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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?
~By Chanakya ~
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.
~By Marian Anderson ~
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
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.
~By Michael Servetus ~
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
~By Woody Hayes ~
I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.
~By Benmont Tench ~
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
~By Pythagoras ~
I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.
~By Nigella Lawson ~
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.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.
~By Dick Wolf ~
Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
~By Heraclitus ~
I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
~By Haley Reinhart ~
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.
~By Arthur Middleton ~
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.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
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.
~By Jesse Livermore ~
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.
~By Christian Slater ~
During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.
~By John Nelson Darby ~
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.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
~By Robert Herrick ~
The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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.
~By Lord Byron ~
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.
~By Brian Harris ~
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
~By John Ruskin ~
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.
~By Julia Ward Howe ~
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.
~By Keith Haring ~
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.
~By John McLaughlin ~
I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
~By M. Russell Ballard ~
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.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
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.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
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.
~By Max Muller ~
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.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
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.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
For myself, Queer Eye feeds more to my heart and my soul than as a platform for a career.
~By Kyan Douglas ~
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.
~By Johann Arndt ~
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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.
~By Jean Paul ~
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
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.
~By Solomon Burke ~
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.
~By Harry Crosby ~
To possess taste, one must have some soul.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
~By Ruth St. Denis ~
'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.
~By Judy Garland ~
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.
~By Michael Jackson ~
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.
~By James Otis ~
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.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
~By Stella Adler ~
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I don't think I do have a soul.
~By Al Purdy ~
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
~By Janis Joplin ~
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.
~By Juliette G. Low ~
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.
~By Thomas R. Kelly ~
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.
~By William R. Alger ~
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.
~By Michael Apted ~
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
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.
~By William Ernest Henley ~
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
~By Marie Stopes ~
When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.
~By Camille Pissarro ~
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.
~By James Allen ~
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
Tone has the living soul.
~By Shinichi Suzuki ~
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
~By Joseph Addison ~
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.
~By Max Beckmann ~
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.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
~By Edward Coke ~
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
The authentic self is the soul made visible.
~By Sarah Ban Breathnach ~
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.
~By Adam Savage ~
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.'
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.
~By George W. Bush ~
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
~By Horace ~
You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.
~By Mariska Hargitay ~
For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.
~By Randy Travis ~
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.
~By Eyvind Johnson ~
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
~By Rebecca West ~
Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
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.
~By Eugene V. Debs ~
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.
~By George Santayana ~
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