Quotes about soul
soul world this-world
The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft. Gustave Flaubert
soul identity levels
Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level
soul criticism sensitive
We're fragile, fragmented souls who are very sensitive to criticism. Gordon Ramsay
soul damnation cases
All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation. Gilbert K. Chesterton
soul pleasure worthy
We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.
soul conversation repartee
Repartee is the soul of conversation. John Dryden
soul arms poverty
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
soul desire rage
Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
soul enemy forgiving
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
soul shields enough
I have a soul that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge enough for more.
soul answers enough
The province of the soul is large enough to fill up every cranny of your time, and leave you much to answer for if one wretch be damned by your neglect.
soul able too-much
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
soul sometimes pops
There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical. John Mayer
soul care magistrates
The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate. John Locke
soul helping conscience
We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America. John Lewis
soul body noble
Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul. John Lancaster Spalding
soul balls chains
Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.
soul language
To possess another language is to possess another soul. John le Carre
soul favors rooms
Tis ever thus when favours are denied; All had been granted but the thing we beg: And still some great unlikely substitute-- Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good-- Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon. Joanna Baillie
soul belief humans
The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul. George MacDonald
soul anticipation enjoyment
Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment. Elizabeth Gaskell
soul helping praying
It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment. Elizabeth Gilbert
soul brain mind
I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.
soul trials world
I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK because he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that--he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us.
soulmate mirrors flames
A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
soul growth quarrels
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations. Logan Pearsall Smith
soul dew should
We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.
soul roles left
I have to save the parts of my soul that are left for the good roles and the true love. Madeline Zima
soul gates housemaids
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates. T. S. Eliot
soul
The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.
soul
Death is the Graduation of the Soul Sylvia Browne
soul church way
You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul. Sylvester Stallone
soul pieces equipment
You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.