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Quotes About Soul

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
~ Robert Browning
Epitaph On John Dove, Innkeeper Here lies Johnie Pigeon; What was his religion? Whae'er desires to ken, To some other warl' Maun follow the carl, For here Johnie Pigeon had nane! Strong ale was ablution, Small beer persecution, A dram was memento mori; But a full-flowing bowl Was the saving his soul, And port was celestial glory.
~ Robert Burns
What physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favor, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience? A quiet mind cureth all them, but all they cannot comfort a distressed soul: who can put to silence the voice of desperation?
~ Robert Burton
Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.
~ Robert Burton
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
~ Robert Burton
The gilding holds the eye just long enough to let God enter the soul. The two-dimensional image does not require interpretation, and therefore doesn't stand between you and God the way it does in three-dimensional western art.
~ Robert C. Yeager
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
~ Robert Charles Benchley
There is a wonderful line in one of Cicero's letters to Atticus in which he describes moving into a property and says: I have put out my books and now my house has a soul.
~ Robert Harris
I have put out my books and now my house has a soul.
~ Robert Harris
Heart of the Dark. Ba'alzamon. Name hidden within name shrouded by name. Secret buried within secret cloaked by secret. Betrayer of Hope. Ishamael betrays all hope. Truth burns and sears. Hope fails before truth. A lie is our shield. Who can stand against the Heart of the Dark? Who can face the Betrayer of Hope? Soul of shadow, Soul of the Shadow, he is—
~ Robert Jordan
My love is gone, carried away, by the wind that shakes the willow, and all the land is beaten hard, by the wind that shakes the willow. But I will hold her close to me in heart and dearest memory, and with her strength to steel my soul, her love to warm my heart-strings, I will stand where we once sang, though cold wind shakes the willow.
~ Robert Jordan
Almost ten years past now that Edeyn had watched him ride away from Fal Moran, and been gone when he returned, yet he still could recall her face more clearly than that of any woman who had shared his bed since. He was no longer a boy, to think that she loved him just because she had chosen to become his first lover, yet there was an old saying among Malkieri men. Your carneira wears part of your soul as a ribbon in her hair forever. Custom strong as law made it so.
~ Robert Jordan
But trust is the color of a dark seed growing. Trust is the color of a heart's blood flowing. Trust is the color of a soul's last breath. Trust is the color of death.
~ Robert Jordan
Mat walked stiffly to the hatch. Behind him, he heard Mallia. "He's a cold one. I never heard that Andor employed assassins, but burn my soul, he is a cold one.
~ Robert Jordan
Your carneira wears part of your soul as a ribbon in her hair forever.
~ Robert Jordan
Tu carneira lleva para siempre una parte de tu alma como una cinta en el cabello».
~ Robert Jordan
But trust is the sound of the grave-dog's bark. Trust is the sound of betrayal in the dark. Trust is, the sound of a soul's last breath. Trust is the sound of death.
~ Robert Jordan
It is important to get connected to your soul. There are motivational thoughts that bring eternal peace and integrity. The life then gives an outlook of spiritual awareness about one's self and the world. A self-learned lesson can be helpful in terms of experiencing the intensity of positive thoughts.
~ Robert Jordan
Heart of the Dark. Ba'alzamon. Name hidden within name shrouded by name. Secret buried within secret cloaked by secret. Betrayer of Hope. Ishamael betrays all hope. Truth burns and sears. Hope fails before truth. A lie is our shield. Who can stand against the Heart of the Dark? Who can face the Betrayer of Hope? Soul of shadow, Soul of the Shadow, he is—' " She stopped with a sigh. "It ends there. What do you make of it?
~ Robert Jordan
Eres un buen chico. No dejes que nadie te quite eso... Nunca pienses lo contrario. Te preocupas por los demás. Eso es fácil de perder... Preocuparse por las personas. Nos enfocamos tanto en lo que necesitamos... Que dejamos de preocuparnos por las demás personas. Tal vez es lo que debemos hacer para sobrevivir... Pero te quita un pedazo del alma... Cada vez.
~ Robert Kirkman
No somos seres humanos teniendo una experiencia espiritual. Somos seres espirituales teniendo una experiencia humana. –Pierre Tielhard de Chardin, filósofo francés
~ Robert Kiyosaki
This longing to commit a madness stays with us throughout our lives. Who has not, when standing with someone by an abyss or high up on a tower, had a sudden impulse to push the other over? And how is it that we hurt those we love although we know that remorse will follow? Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves. To live is to war with trolls in heart and soul. To write is to sit in judgment on oneself. —Henrik Ibsen
~ Robert L. Moore
had sold his soul, and that is something you can never repurchase at any price.
~ Robert M. Edsel
People around the world must know that America stands on the side of liberty and human dignity, despite whatever compromises we make to protect our interests. If we abandon that role, we will lose that which makes us historically unique. We will lose some piece of our national soul.
~ Robert M. Gates