Quotes About Soul

It is not when a man is at the end of his life, but when a man is at the end of his profession, that his soul shows itself.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow farer true through life, Heart whole and soul free, The August father gave to me.

His life was a suicide. He gave up his soul for fear, little by little, until there was nowhere left in the universe but hell.

Something about this boat screamed, I am a very popular model in the world's oil-bearing regions. I cost more than your soul!

Slippers always seemed like kind of a nonsense item until she came to Ellingham and felt the bathroom floor on the first proper day of wintry weather. Once skin touched tile and part of her soul died, she knew what slippers were for.

The words seemed to come from a place deep inside me, far beyond the place where I stored them, past the ideas.

if ever you hear a man telling you that you must be happy, that it's your natural right, that your first duty is to yourself—that will be the man who's not after your soul.

What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Ellsworth asked: "Then, in order to be truly wealthy, a man should collect souls?

He looked at Roark and saw the calmest, kindest face—a face without a hint of pity. It did not look like the countenance of men who watch the agony of another with a secret pleasure, uplifted by the sight of a beggar who needs their compassion; it did not bear the cast of the hungry soul that feeds upon another's humiliation.

Should the soul vanish from the earth, the motors would stop, because that is the power which keeps them going—not the oil under the floor under her feet, the oil that would then become primeval ooze again—not the steel cylinders that would become stains of rust on the walls of the caves of shivering savages—the power of a living mind—the power of thought and choice and purpose.

It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money—and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.

The novelist must discover the potential, the gold mine, of man's soul, must extract the gold and then fashion as magnificent a crown as his ability and vision permit.

We were defeated by the greed, the selfishness and the base, animal nature of men. It was the eternal conflict between spirit and matter, between soul and body. They would not renounce their bodies, which was all we asked of them.

That's the sort of thing I want you to understand. To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul—would you understand why that's much harder?

no es que yo no sufra; es que conozco la importancia del sufrimiento y sé que hay que luchar contra el dolor y eliminarlo y no aceptarlo nunca como parte integrante del alma, como herida permanente en la propia noción de la existencia.

they have taught man that he is a hopeless misfit made of two elements, both symbols of death. A body without a soul is a corpse, a soul without a body is a ghost— yet search is there image of man's nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost a corpse endowed with some evil volition of its own and a ghost endowed with the knowledge that everything known to man is non-existent, that only the unknowable exists.

Lo que llamáis vuestra alma o espíritu es vuestra conciencia y lo que llamáis libre voluntad es la voluntad de vuestra mente para pensar o no, la única que poseéis, vuestra única libertad, la opción que controla todas las opciones realizadas por vosotros y determina vuestra vida y vuestro carácter.

Ellsworth was fifteen, when he astonished the Bible-class teacher by an odd question. The teacher had been elaborating upon the text: "What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Ellsworth asked: "Then, in order to be truly wealthy, a man should collect souls?

Tu hermana es un síntoma de la enfermedad de nuestro siglo. Un producto decadente de la era de las máquinas. Las máquinas han destruido la humanidad del hombre, lo han apartado del suelo, le han robado sus artes naturales, han matado su alma y lo han transformado en un robot insensible. Ahí tienes un ejemplo de ello: una mujer que dirige un ferrocarril, en vez de practicar el bello arte de tejer..., y de tener hijos.

Los defensores del alma humana estaban preocupados por los sentimientos de sus semejantes; los defensores del cuerpo tuvieron como solo objetivo el estómago, pero ambos se unieron para luchar contra la mente. Sin embargo, nadie, ni el más ruin de los seres humanos, puede renunciar totalmente a su cerebro.

El mundo de hoy es el mundo que desearon; la vida, el objetivo de su odio. Dejadles con esa muerte a la que adoran. En nombre de vuestra magnífica devoción a esta tierra, dejadles; no empleéis la grandeza de vuestra alma en conseguir triunfo de su mal. ¿Me oyes... amor mío?

Dagny, it's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.

Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential question. And the response is: through love and imagination.

Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.