Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.

Lena Olin

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

Laurie Halse Anderson

You must walk alone to find your soul.

Thomas Aquinas

The soul is known by it's acts.

Thomas Aquinas

I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught…

Thomas Aquinas

The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.

Thomas Aquinas

The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.

Thomas Aquinas

There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.

Therese of Lisieux

I also understood that God's love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace as it does in the loftiest soul.

Therese of Lisieux

A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.

Tertullian

Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.

Tertullian

Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.

Terry Tempest Williams

Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.

Larry Norman

We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.

Larry McMurtry

I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.

Lady Gaga

I was changing my outfits, my looks, my wig, sometimes several times a day. That's when I know my soul is restless.

Lady Gaga

I don't want the 5 dollars in your pocket, I want your soul

Lewis Carroll

Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul

Joseph Campbell

A temple is a landscape of the soul.

Joseph Campbell

The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, ‘The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet.

Joseph Campbell

The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.

Julio Cortazar

In quoting others, we cite ourselves.

Joy Page

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.

Joshua Prager

It's easier to get over a lost body than a lost soul.

Josh Billings

The soul has more diseases than the body.

Karl G. Maeser

Say to your soul, 'Let no unclean thing enter here.'

Kailash Kher

We are all souls, and what I have learnt so far is that while God is male, the souls created by Him are female, so I always had women as my theme, as they are dedicated to Him.

Joyce Cary

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Oskar Schindler

He who saves one life, saves the world entire.

Oscar Wilde

I drink to separate my body from my soul.

Oscar Wilde

For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

Oscar Wilde

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.