Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

Temple going is for the purification of the soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.

John C. Maxwell

Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul.

James Joyce

I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul.

James Joyce

What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

James Joyce

Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

Libba Bray

Tonight, she went into the woods, and I fear she shall live in the woods of my soul for the rest of my days.

Libba Bray

- 'Music opens your soul, makes you ready.' - 'Ready for what?' - He smiles big. 'Exactly.

Friedrich Schiller

The mind is the eyesight of the soul.

Friedrich Schiller

The lemonade is weak, like your soul.

Friedrich Schiller

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.

Jon Foreman

There is a deeper portion of our being that we rarely allow others to see. Call it a soul maybe, this is the place that holds the most value. All else can drift but this. When this dies our body has no meaning.

Jon Foreman

I want to be a compassionate soul, finding worth and beauty in the worlds around me and within me, attempting to sing a transcendent tune with my temporal position in this life.

Luc de Clapiers

To possess taste, one must have some soul.

Lord Byron

It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.

John Buchan

Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.

John Bonham

I don't consider that I'm particularly influenced by anyone or anything. But when I started playing, I was influenced by early soul. It was just that feel, that sound.

John Arbuthnot

To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

Elizabeth Smart

But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.

Eric Hoffer

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

Eric Benet

I like to leave all of my soul on the stage where I perform.

Emmanuelle Seigner

Sometimes when you do big movies, you can lose sometimes a little bit of soul.

James Cook

Suffering perfects the soul.

James Cook

The soul is that part of you in harmony with God.

Og Mandino

Do the very best that you can, in the things you do best, and you will know in thy soul, that you are the greatest success in the world.

Norman Mailer

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.

Origen

Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church, baptism is given for the remission of sins, and, according to the usage of the Church, baptism is given even to infants. If there were nothing in infants which required the remission of sins and nothing in them pertinent to forgiveness, the grace of baptism would seem superfluous

Origen

The soul has neither beginning nor end [They] come into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of their previous lives