Quotes About Soul

It was apparent that materialism was in complete control of the economic structure, the final objective of which was for the individual to become part of a system providing an economic security at the expense of the human soul, mind, and body.

Plato defined good as threefold in character: good in the soul, expressed through the virtues; good in the body, expressed through the symmetry and endurance of the parts; and good in the external world, expressed through social position and companionship.

His senseless disdain was beyond me. I have met only a few men like him in my life, and they rattle my soul. They are frightening, and you can never anticipate the turn of their minds or the extent of their greed. They are in fact criminals uncaught by society.

What earth is this so in want of you they rise up on high to seek you in heaven? Look at them staring at you right before their eyes, unseeing, unseeing, blind.

Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.

el amor que late en las piedras viejas de esta casa ha hecho un milagro más: el de permitir que, como si fueran ciegos, no se vieran el cuerpo sino sólo el alma».

ustedes son hermosos el uno para el otro, porque se quieren y ya no se ven sino el alma, ¿es tan difícil de comprender acaso?

La justicia pertenece al campo de las fuerzas del alma. Y por eso puede brotar en los lugares menos propicios, pues cuando la llamamos, allí acude, a veces con la venda en los ojos pero alenta al oído, desde no se sabe muy bien dónde, como una cosa anterior a jueces y acusados, incluso a las propias leyes escritas

Si hay luz en el alma, habrá belleza en la persona. Si hay belleza en la persona, habrá armonía en la casa. si hay armonía en la casa, habrá orden en la nación. Si hay orden en la nación, habrá paz en el mundo." Proverbio Chino.

You receive a great number of rewards as soon as you begin creating something you dream of deep within your soul.

Maybe it is this discrepancy between the aging of the body and the longevity of subjective psychology that prompted the establishment of a distinction between body and soul, which seems obvious and natural to many and makes them believe, more or less vaguely, in the immortality of a spiritual principle.

Do dead people like music? I hope they listen to mine if they do, in their coffins, in the cold underworld, between the mind and the body in an insomniac wall of sleep.

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

He is therefore free to use me to give a good thought to a soul; and if I think this inspiration belongs to me, I would be like "the donkey carrying the relics"313 who believed the reverence paid to the saints was being directed to him.

When I am preparing for Holy Communion, I picture my soul as a piece of land and I beg the Blessed Virgin to remove from it any rubbish that would prevent it [80r°] from being free; then I ask her to set up a huge tent worthy of heaven, adorning it with her own jewelry; finally, I invite all the angels and saints to come and conduct a magnificent concert there. It seems to me that when Jesus descends into my heart He is content to find Himself so well received and I, too, [5]am content.

what peace floods the soul when she rises above natural feelings.

soul in the state of grace has nothing to fear from demons who are cowards, capable of fleeing before the gaze of a little child!

I had no need to raise my head to see and, in fact, no longer raised it but to contemplate heaven which to me was filled with joy. All my trials had come to an end and the winter of my soul had passed on [20]forever.

Just as the sun shines simultaneously on the tall cedars and on each little flower as though it were alone on the earth, so Our Lord is occupied particularly with each [10]soul as though there were no others like it.

joy isn't found in the material objects surrounding us but in the inner recesses of the soul.

He was a restless soul, competitive, calculating, always thinking about business. 'He wouldn't be able to sit still five minutes,' a longtime colleague recalled before McLean's death. 'You'd either have to play gin rummy with him or discuss business with him.

Como dice una canción, me ha rozado el alma y me la ha cambiado, ¿cómo perdonarle el haber hecho nacer en mí las ganas de querer y de que me quieran?

Och tro mig, musiken syns i dina ögon också. Till och med när du blundar.

Ella ha vuelto, está ahí. En algún lugar sobre la tierra, le espera y le busca. Desde ahora, el tiempo cuenta para los dos. Si renuncian el uno al otro será mucho peor que malgastar sus vidas, será la extinción de sus almas.