Quotes About Soul

It gave me something to feel about.

The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

When love allows you to be who you are truly and deeply, the nakedness of the body holds no significant power to the attributes of the pureness of one's soul. Being able to connect to a person in a way where the bodies become one, the heart becomes one, and the souls become entangled as one. "When

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

I am not, at the end of the day, a mother, a wife, a writer, an activist, a friend. I am a child of God. That's who I was when I came into this world and who I'll be when I leave it. No one can take that from me.

'Al Green Explores Your Mind' is really kind of a very personal record for me.

Growing up in the projects, I've been around music all my life. Marvin Gaye, everything man.

I never necessarily played the music I listen to. I've always liked a lot of soul, roots-reggae, alternative psych-rock, and I feel like, with age, that's kind of come.

And in Amsterdam, you learn that a night out dancing is good for the soul.

It's my only freedom, music, and I'm not going to give it up to anyone else.

I was raised on Marvin Gaye. Before I knew Babyface or anyone else, I knew Marvin Gaye. My mother played Marvin Gaye.

I heard Otis Redding singing 'These Arms of Mine' and I knew that was the band I needed.

I always say I'm an artist with the soul of a realtor.

Like evil, good is contagious. Therefore when Madame de la Chanterie's lodger had lived in that old and silent house for some months after the worthy Alain's last confidence, which gave him the deepest respect for the religious lives of those among whom his was cast, he experienced that well-being of the soul which comes of a regulated existence, gentle customs, and harmony of nature in those who surround us.

Güte ist nicht ohne Klippen: man schreibt sie dem Charakter zu und erkennt die stille Bemühung einer schönen Seele nur selten an. Die Bösen dagegen belohnt man für das Böse, das sie nicht tun.

My dear fellow, those women of whom you say, 'They are angels!' I — I — have seen stripped of the little grimaces under which they hide their soul, as well as of the frippery under which they disguise their defects — without manners and without stays; they are not beautiful.

N'y a-t-il pas des pensées, des actions qui, en amour, équivalent, pour certaines âmes, à de saintes fiancailles!

We have within us an inward power of sight, an eye of the soul which foresees catastrophes; and the repugnance that comes over us against the fateful being is the result of that foresight. Though religion orders us to conquer it, distrust remains, and its voice is forever heard.

Then, as we desire all the more violently the things we find difficult to obtain, he continued to adore women with that ingenuous tenderness and feline delicacy the secret of which belongs to women themselves, who may, perhaps, prefer to keep the monopoly of it. In point of fact, though women of the world complain of the way men love them, they have little liking themselves for those whose soul is half feminine.

Para los enamorados es un placer infinito encontrar en los accidentes de un paisaje, en la transparencia del aire y en los aromas de la tierra la poesía que anida en su alma. La naturaleza habla por ellos.

Great pain, therefore, pain that arises to anguish, should be suffering so deadly, that past, present, and future are alike included in its grip, and no part of life is left sound and whole. Never afterwards can we think the same thoughts as before. Anguish engraves itself in ineffaceable characters on mouth and brow; it passes through us, destroying or relaxing the springs that vibrate to enjoyment, leaving behind in the soul the seeds of a disgust for all things in this world.

Is it not an offence to the weakest creature that can think at all to be compelled to do, by the will of another, anything that he would otherwise have done simply of his own accord? Of all forms of tyranny, the most odious is that which constantly robs the soul of the merit of its thoughts and deeds. It has to abdicate without having reigned. The word we are readiest to speak, the feelings we most love to express, die when we are commanded to utter them.

Alas! she is nothing now but a soul, a soul which beams upon her son and me; the body no longer exists; she has conquered suffering. Think what a spectacle for a father!

Of all forms of tyranny, the most odious is that which constantly robs the soul of the merit of its thoughts and deeds. It has to abdicate without having reigned. The word we are readiest to speak, the feelings we most love to express, die when we are commanded to utter them.