It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
~By Epictetus ~
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
~By Luther Burbank ~
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?"
~By Sigmund Freud ~
Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
~By Dale Turner ~
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.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
~By Robert Hughes ~
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
~By Anais Nin ~
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.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
~By Chanakya ~
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
~By Henry Fielding ~
I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.
~By Dick Dale ~
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.
~By John Chrysostom ~
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.
~By Daniel Libeskind ~
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
~By Richard Bach ~
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.
~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
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.
~By Barbara Kingsolver ~
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.
~By Jada Pinkett Smith ~
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
~By Epictetus ~
I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
~By P. J. Harvey ~
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 ~
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.
~By Shmuel Y. Agnon ~
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
~By John Calvin ~
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.
~By Saint Augustine ~
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.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Brevity is the soul of wit.
~By William Shakespeare ~
You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.
~By Wayne Newton ~
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
~By Miguel De Cervantes ~
Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.
~By Thomas Holcroft ~
I've always been a big fan of the American soul sound.
~By Jose Carreras ~
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 ~
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.
~By George Bancroft ~
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
~By Rebecca West ~
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
~By St. Jerome ~
Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.
~By Roy Ayers ~
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
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.
~By William Morris ~
Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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.
~By Tavis Smiley ~
And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.
~By Edmund Waller ~
I don't think I do have a soul.
~By Al Purdy ~
How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
~By Edgar Lee Masters ~
I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.
~By Michelle Shocked ~
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
~By Owen Feltham ~
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
~By Democritus ~
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?
~By Albert J. Nock ~
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
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.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
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.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
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.
~By Jerome Lawrence ~
I fed my ego, but not my soul.
~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.
~By Andrei Platonov ~
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.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
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.
~By William Falconer ~
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
~By Thomas Merton ~
Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.
~By Alice Cary ~
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.
~By Garrett Fort ~
God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
~By Theodore Roethke ~
Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
~By Owen Feltham ~
If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.
~By Logan P. Smith ~
Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
~By Geoffrey Chaucer ~
Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul.
~By Donna Karan ~
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~By Aristotle ~
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
~By Joseph Stalin ~
But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
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.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
~By Ernest Shackleton ~
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
~By Isaac Mayer Wise ~
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.
~By Victoria Beckham ~
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.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
~By Pythagoras ~
I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
~By Haley Reinhart ~
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
~By Paramahansa Yogananda ~
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.
~By Lee Atwater ~
I will devote my body and soul to the service of the people and the nation.
~By Norodom Sihamoni ~
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.
~By Wavy Gravy ~
I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
~By Katey Sagal ~
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.
~By William Booth ~
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
~By William Ernest Henley ~
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
~By George Eliot ~
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.
~By William James ~
When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul.
~By Charles Tennyson Turner ~
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.
~By Saddam Hussein ~
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.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
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 ~
We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
~By Oswald Chambers ~
Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.
~By David O. McKay ~
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
~By Aristotle ~
Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
~By Jim Valvano ~
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
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