Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pliny the Elder

In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.

Plutarch

Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world with contempt; but a truly noble spirit appears greatest in distress;

Pierre Bayle

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.

Phillips Brooks

To whatever world He carries our souls when they shall pass out of these imprisoning bodies, in those worlds these souls of ours shall find themselves part of the same great temple; for it belongs not to this earth alone.

Phillips Brooks

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

Naveen Andrews

I've always liked women who are older. They seem to know who they are, and they've lived. They've got soul, and that's very attractive.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.

Mother Teresa

The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do something for him or her. It is not chance; it has been planned by God. We are bound by conscience to help him or her.

Mother Teresa

From the moment a soul has the grace to know God, she must seek.

Monica Bellucci

An actor works with their soul and their thought

Paul Walker

I used to believe in one true soul mate, but not anymore. I believe you can have a few.

Terry Pratchett

A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest ... because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.

Terry Pratchett

I commend my soul to any god that can find it.

Tennessee Williams

There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!

Randall Robinson

Where does a black soul go to rest?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The universe is the externalization of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

Scarlett Johansson

I believe in finding a soulmate.

Shinichi Suzuki

Tone has the living soul.

Laura Mvula

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

Laura Schlessinger

Never sell your soul.

Larry David

I don't like to analyze my music too much. It just comes welling up out of the depths of my soul.

Lady Gregory

Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

Marcus Aurelius

Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.