Quotes About Soul

Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Like Jesus, every human being has enough memories in his past to occupy his time and thoughts continually. It is not the remembrance of these incidents but the reliving of them that creates havoc in our souls.

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

It was impossible to explain. The new moon, the snow, the dusky smell of burning logs -- the whole evening had throbbed with some sweet haunting anguish of the soul. The word came to her. Nostalgia--for something that was hers and seemed already passed.

Most importantly Earth School is an amazing learning academy for the soul.

Only a thousand words? What would it be worth to you, having clear experience at the Divine Vibrational Frequency? Think that might be worth far more than all the thousands of photos currently stored on your phone? Actually, all your direct experience at the Divine Vibrational Frequency goes into permanent memory, stored as process rather than content, and kept sacred in your Storehouse of Impressions, retained now and also throughout your long future... as an eternal soul.

Music is so important in a human life. It finds a space inside us that nothing else touches.' Gustav

Like deathbed conversions, last paragraph soul-saving does not convince.

The answers to my questions lie within. There is nothing I can ask that I do not, somewhere within the deep recesses of my soul, know the answer to.

They were sitting on a small bench near the Kropotkin Gate when Svetlana mentioned the subject of suicide. Sinyavsky replied, "A suicide only thinks that he is killing himself. He is killing only his body, and the soul after that languishes, for God alone can take the soul."3 Svetlana may have remembered Grandmother Olga's words: "You will know your soul when it aches.

The concentration of cannabinoid receptors in the areas of the brain devoted to the higher mental processes—memory, cognition, creativity—is striking. Hemp seems custom designed to sustain our soul as well as our body.

Science tells us much, but without an absolute communion, a thorough accord and responsive affinity between human soul and plant soul there never can be a thorough understanding of the nature of plants.

El verbo puede crearse su propia carne, como el caracol su concha: pero la carne sola jamás creará al verbo, y como la estatua existirá sin alma.

esa América que tiembla de huracanes y que vive de amor, hombres de ojos sajones y alma bárbara, vive. Y sueña. Y ama, y vibra, y es la hija del Sol.

Y llegó el invierno, y el pobre sintió frío en el cuerpo y en el alma.

Por que se gosta de um autor? Gosta-se de um autor quando, ao lê-lo, tem-se a experiência de comunhão. Arte é isso: comunicar aos outros nossa identidade íntima com eles. Ao lê-lo eu me leio, melhor me entendo. Somos do mesmo sangue, companheiros no mesmo mundo. Não importa que o autor já tenha morrido há séculos... [...] Nasci neste tempo, mas minha alma ficou num lugar do passado que eu muito amei.

Ah! Como as entrelinhas são importantes! É nelas que estão escritas as coisas que só a alma pode entender.

A alma é o lugar onde o amor guarda o que não aconteceu, sob a forma da imaginação, para que aconteça sempre.

A paixão é uma perturbação da tranquilidade da alma.

A alma é um cenário. Por vezes, ela é como uma manhã brilhante e fresca, inundada de alegria. Por vezes, ela é como um pôr de sol, triste e nostálgico. A vida é assim. Mas, se é manhã brilhante o tempo todo, alguma coisa está errada. Tristeza é preciso. A tristeza torna as pessoas mais ternas. Se é crepúsculo o tempo todo, alguma coisa não está bem. Alegria é preciso. Alegria é a chama que dá vontade de viver.

Há também as dores da alma que nenhuma cirurgia consegue curar. O medo, por exemplo, não pode ser amputado. Pena. Porque o medo paralisa a vida. Dominada pelo medo, a vida se encolhe, perde a capacidade de lutar, entrega-se à morte.