Quotes About Soul

Whether anybody was home meant everything to a house. It was more than a major fact: it was the only fact. The family was the house's soul.

He watched a catbird hopping around in an azalea that was readying itself to bloom; he envied the bird for knowing nothing of what he knew; he would have swapped souls with it in a heartbeat. And then to take wing, to know the air's buoyancy even for an hour: the trad was a no-brainer, and the catbird, with its lively indifference to him, its sureness of physical selfhood, seemed well aware of how preferable it was to be the bird.

Did his soul change every time it achieved a new insight? The very definition of a soul was immutability. Perhaps the root of his confusion was the conflation of soul and knowledge. Perhaps the soul was one of those tools built to do exactly one specific task, to know that I am I, and was mutable with respect to all other forms of knowledge?

Love turned out to be soul-crippling, stomach-turning, weirdly claustrophobic: a sense of endlessness bottled up inside him, endless weight, endless potential, with only the small outlet of a shivering pale girl in a bad rain jacket to escape through. Touching her was the farthest thing from his mind. The impulse was to throw himself at her feet.

Perhaps the soul was one of those tools built to do exactly one specific task, to know that I am I, and was mutable with respect to all other forms of knowledge?

Technological capitalism is an infernal machine. It always has its way with us. If it doesn't dismantle the Postal Service from without, it will steal its soul from within. The attachment of Americans to their post office is pure nostalgia. It's the double vision of a people whose hearts don't like what their desires have created.

He couldn't be more than twenty-five, but he obviously lived enough to have things to regret. He looked like he'd taken a long fall a short time ago. Pieces of the man he'd been were jumbled up with the new guy, the lost soul.

The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses , but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come.

The soul was not ready to transcend, but was sent back, given a chance to right a previous generation's wrong.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

Para que explicar? Nada desejo explicar. Explicar é limitar. É impossível limitar Gabriela, dissecar sua alma.

Osjedam da energija za pisanje izvire iz moje nutrine, nema boljega primjera. Uvijek sam razmišljala da, iako su slova ista, njihovo je zna?enje druk?ije ako potje?u iz duše.

Soy esa torpe intensidad que es un alma.

In my soul the afternoon grows wider and I reflect.

I Fear the mirror may disclose The true, unvarnished visage of my soul, Bruised by shadows, black and blue with guilt- The face God sees, that men perhaps see too.

Llegué a abominar de mi cuerpo, llegué a sentir que dos ojos, dos manos, dos pulmones, son tan monstruosos como dos caras.

Ciegamente reclama duración el alma arbitraria cuando la tiene asegurada en vidas ajenas, cuando tú mismo eres la continuación realizada de quienes no alcanzaron tu tiempo y otros serán (y son) tu inmortalidad en la tierra.

You are the only music my life has understood.

I don't want to continue being Jorge Luis Borges; I want to be someone else. I hope that my death will be total; I hope to die in body and soul.

Vibrante en las espadas y en la pasión y dormidas en la hiedra, solo la vida existe. El espacio y el tiempo son formas suyas, son instrumentos mágicos del alma, y cuando ésta se apague, se apagarán con ella el espacio, el tiempo y la muerte, como al cesar la luz caduca el simulacro de los espejos. ('La recoleta', Luna de enfrente - 1925)

la Regla recordaba que nadie debía conquistar un reino si antes no conquistaba su propia alma. Teóricamente, cada templario debía antes conquistar su alma para Dios. La estancia en la Orden suponía una guerra personal contra el mundo, el demonio y la carne. Sólo hombres con paz en su alma podían ser guerreros. Si las pasiones habitaban en nuestros corazones, iríamos a la guerra acompañados de nuestras pasiones.

Cada ángel porta en su interior su propio cielo esté donde esté. Cada demonio, esté donde esté, lleva dentro de su espíritu su propio infierno.

The sea, perhaps because of its saltness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its servants' soul.

He felt soothed and happy, as if some gentle and invisible hand had removed from his soul the burden of his body.