Quotes About Soul

I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

But on the first day came veiled spirits from all hours into his soul... a soft intoxication, which the atmosphere of nature, like that of a wine-store, communicated to him, spread itself, like an enchanted solitude around his soul.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

Maintenant je me cherche et ne me trouve plus.

Objective knowledge can be learned through teachers, books, or observation of something outside of ourselves. Gnostic or noetic (an alternative spelling) knowledge is what is revealed to us or intuitively perceived as spiritually true. I think of gnosis as what we "gknow" at a soul level, it's what we know "in our bones.

A person (or ego) with a connection to the Self has a sense that what she is doing with her life is meaningful. This can only be known subjectively, it is soul knowledge.

To be a choicemaker in the third phase means that what you choose to do or be must correspond with what is true for you at a soul level.

A feast of moon and men and barking hounds,An orgy for some genius of the SouthWith blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth,Surprised in making folk songs from soul sounds.

The bitterness of wearing your enemies' cast-off clothes eats into your soul. If I wore silk stockings for the rest of my life, I don't believe I could obliterate the scar.

She was by nature a sunny soul, and had always snatched the tiniest excuse to be amused.

It's setting a pretty high value on his own soul. I should never rate mine as being worth a lifetime of effort.' 'I suppose a person's soul is worth whatever price he chooses to set.

Oh, of course, if a man keeps his soul in a bandbox he can produce it immaculate in the end; but what's a soul for if it's not for use? He would much better live in the world with his fellow-men, and help them keep their souls clean, even at the risk of getting his own a little dusty.

She was by nature a sunny soul

Bossuet has a sentence which is beyond the comprehension of an apostle who does not realize what must be the soul of his apostolate. It runs: "When God desires a work to be wholly from His hand, he reduces all to impotence and nothingness, and then He acts." Nothing wounds God so much as pride.

A man can suffer like a pagan, like the damned, or like a saint. If he wishes to suffer with Christ, he must try to suffer like a saint. For then, suffering is of benefit to our own souls, and applies the merits of the Passion to those of others: "I fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for His Body, which is the Church."10

Le Chemin est une alchimie du temps sur l'âme.

He: What's the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, "but there was nothing the matter with her.

you truly are la reina de mi alma." The queen of my soul.

A fragrant Perfume is Love's Living Breath Breathed upon my Soul, the Soul of the beloved, infusing into me the Life Divine.

There ran in me sweet lines of poetry

Miroir de l'Ame Pecheresse, Mirror of a Lost Soul.

Obsessive love is built on a tissue of illusions: that by having sex with someone you can possess that person's soul; that you can transmute past defeats into present triumphs without understanding or mourning; that you make the unloving love you by constancy, uncomplaining availability, and molding yourself into what you thing that person wants.

chaque jour à mon âme tu ajoutes une flamme des fleurs à ma corbeille un rai à mon soleil