Quotes About Soul

The huge liquid eyes seemed to look deep down into my soul, and far, far beyond towards nameless, unexplored vistas of the infinite.

We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, Neither mortal nor immortal, So that with freedom of choice and with honor, As though the maker and molder of thyself, Thou mayest fashion thyself in whatever shape thou shalt prefer. Thou shalt have the power out of thy soul's judgment, To be reborn into the higher forms, which are divine." —GOD'S SPEECH TO ADAM FROM PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA'S ORATION ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN

All you have to do to change your life forever is commit in your heart and soul to find something to appreciate in every moment.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. —AESOP

All those who have vantage points in their spirit... ; all those who are masters of their language; all those for whom words have a meaning; all those for whom there exist sublimities in the soul and currents of thought; all those who are the spirit of the times, and have named these currents of thought -- and I am thinking of their precise works, of that automatic grinding that delivers their spirit to the winds -- are pigs.

Postoji u meni nešto užasno, što raste i što ne poti?e od mene samog, ve? iz mrakova koje nosim u sebi, što poti?e odande gde ?ovekova duša ne zna gde po?inje a gde se završava njegovo Ja, niti šta ga je nateralo da zapo?ne onako kako misli da je zapo?eo.

Nel suo pensiero io sono l'ago che scorre, ed è la sua anima che accetta l'ago e l'accoglie.

A alma dos homens não está nas palavras. Amamo-nos mais quando não escrevemos porque todas as palavras são uma mentira. Quando falamos traímos a nossa alma. Bastava olharmo-nos. Sentirmos coisas, mas só o esforço que se faz para as exprimir já é uma traição.

Neither anguish nor the elation that love or art can bring about are devalued by understanding some of the myriad biological processes that make them what they are. Precisely the opposite should be true: Our sense of wonder should increase before the intricate mechanisms that make such magic possible. Feelings form the base for what humans have described for millennia as the human soul or spirit.

A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.

it's a theory advanced by two French philosophers who are also psychologists, they hold that we do not have a single soul but a confederation of souls guided by a ruling ego, and every now and then this ruling ego changes, so that although we establish a norm it isn't a stable norm, but a variable one.

A Tropic flower cannot live without sun. A soul cannot live without love.

In after years Miranda knew that her first sight of Dragonwyck was the most vivid and significant impression of her life. She stared at the fantastic silhouette which loomed dark against the eastern sky, the spires and gables and chimneys dominated in the center by one high tower; and it was as though the good and evil, the happiness and tragedy, which she was to experience under that roof materialized into physical force and struck across the quiet river into her soul.

If no love is, ah God, what feel I so?

If no love is, ah God, what feel I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he?

Memory is the scribe of the soul

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

Even in adversity, nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. - Aristotle (Attributed by Seneca in Moral Essays, De Tranquillitate Animi On Tranquility of Mind, sct. 17, subsct. 10.)

The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul.

Happiness is a kind of activity of the soul; whereas the remaining good things are either merely indispensable conditions of happiness, or are of the nature of auxiliary means, and useful instrumentally.