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Quotes About Soul

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Such were the professor's words - rather let me say such the words of the fate - enounced to destroy me. As he went on I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy; one by one the various keys were touched which formed the mechanism of my being; chord after chord was sounded, and soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The poor victim, who on the morrow was to pass the awful boundary between life and death, felt not, as I did, such deep and bitter agony. I gnashed my teeth and ground them together, uttering a groan that came from my inmost soul.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things, or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or, in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Y ahora la vida es lo único que codiciamos: que este autómata de carne, con sus miembros y articulaciones en buen estado, pueda ejecutar sus funciones, que la morada de su alma sea capaz de contener a su habitante. Nuestras mentes, que antes viajaban lejos a través de incontables esferas ? combinaciones infinitas, se recluían ahora tras los muros de la carne y aspiraban solo a conservar su bienestar. Sin duda era bastante lo que nos habíamos degradado.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
He is eloquent and persuasive; and once his words had even power over my heart: but trust him not. His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiend-like malice. Hear
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Nothing is more painful to the human mind, than, after the feelings have worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows, and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven; for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose,—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in it highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Aunque tiene el alma destrozada, nadie aprecia más que él las bellezas de la naturaleza.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
nada contribuye tanto a tranquilizar el espíritu como un propósito firme: un punto en el cual el alma pueda fijar su mirada intelectual.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
For nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose —a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
there is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The sunset and the gentle moon, the blessed motion of the leaves and the murmuring of waters are all sweet physicians to a distempered mind. The soul is expanded and drinks in quiet, a lulling medicine – to me it was as the sight of the lovely water snakes to the bewitched mariner – in loving and blessing Nature I unawares, called down a blessing on my own soul.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul of both hope and fear
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul of both hope and fear
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A: The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul. Q: It always happens? A: If we're lucky. And if we let ourselves be blind. Q: Instead of watching out? A: Instead of always watching out.
~ Mary Zimmerman
Fill your soul with love and gratitude. Pray for the world. Share the message of love. And let us flow as long as we live.
~ Masaru Emoto
Sasori, your strength came because of your soul, not in spite of it... You were supposed to be a a top-class ninja puppeteer, not a worthless nobody who lets someone else pull the strings. - Kankurou (Naruto Ch 518)
~ Masashi Kishimoto
A person's life doesn't end when they die, it ends when they lose faith. One who never has had true faith has never been alive either. Failure to acknowledge and ponder your own soul is failure to be born. Most of humanity is simply dead.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
He was like modern atheists in arguing that the soul dies, there is no afterlife, all organised religions are superstitious delusions and invariably cruel, and angels, demons or ghosts do not exist. In his ethics he thought the highest goal of human life is the enhancement of pleasure and the reduction of pain.
~ Matt Ridley
And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we will.
~ Matthew Arnold
The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.
~ Matthew Henry