Quotes About Soul

Beauty always represents an inward and inexhaustible equilibrium of forces; and this overwhelms our soul, since it can neither be calculated nor mechanically produced. A sense of beauty can therefore permit us the direct experience of relationships before we can perceive them, in a differentiated manner, with our discursive reason; in this, incidentally, there is a defence for our own physical and psychic well-being, something that we cannot neglect with impunity.

Del corpo ne abbiamo fatto un'ossessione, ma il corpo non siamo noi.

It is for this reason that art, true art, the one that comes from the soul, is so important in our lives. Art consoles us, it lifts us and directs us. Art cures us. We are not only that which we eat and the air that we breathe. We are also the stories we have heard, the tales we fell asleep listening to when we were children, the books we have read, the music we heard and the emotions that a painting, a statue, or a poem have given us.

La posición que una tumba ocupe en la naturaleza es importantísima. Una tumba bien ubicada y bien expuesta a la "respiración cósmica" puede hacer que el alma del difunto viva en el más allá, y reportar felicidad y bienestar a generaciones futuras. Contrariamente, la tumba mal dispuesta de un antepasado puede causar continuas desgracias a sus descendientes.

The greatest mystery is what lies within

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

your character was the only thing you ever wholly and truly possessed.

Civilized nations build libraries; lands that have lost their soul close them down.

I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body.

For this writer, evil was a matter not of behavior, or even choice, but of being.

Explanations of thoughts as the product of some deeper force such as the soul, he felt, were really the realm of metaphysics.

The symbol is not an artificially constructed sign: it flowers in the soul spontaneously to announce something that cannot be expressed otherwise. It is the unique expression of the thing symbolized as of a reality that thus becomes transparent to the soul, but which itself transcends all expression.

Being is dying by loving . To live in the world as it is & save yr soul too is a lot to do .

There's no stopping the soul that radiates out and around us, any more than one can stop the sweet perfume of a rose. You could, of course, hold your nose. But the rose will continue to exude its rich fragrance, even while you suffocate.

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

You have nothing to offer if you're just some machine actress.

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

Oh Mr. Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine.

When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.

I still like the stuff from the old days: Marvin Gaye, Donnie Hathaway.

Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.

Athletics needs more focus because it is the heart and soul of any Olympics.

With music I feel like it's the one time when I don't have to think and I don't have to contrive anything.

I think the ongoing discussion of the world of advertising is, 'Where is the soul in advertising?'