Quotes About Soul

Self-negation is noble, self-culture is beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared to self-abuse.

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

Jill Carattini said that offering a blessing to another, specifically our children, is a high calling … a mysterious gift given to all made in God's image. The putting of God's name upon another soul as we go about life is our tongue's greatest utterance. It is a hopeful command, a most uplifted effort. As God's name is set forth, not only is it God who does the blessing, it is God who is the very fulfillment of the words we offer. God is the blessing

Unforgiveness is a prison. It slams the door on new beginnings and entrenches you in your present pain. It chains the heart and stops it from beating. It suffocates joy and paralyzes your ability to move on. Unforgiveness is the cancer of the soul. It slowly eats away the marrow of your existence and impairs your judgment, your personality and your ability to love again.

Weigh each heart on its own," I shouted, "for how many of us would pass into the Afterlife if Osiris weighed our hearts with those of our akhu?

She was speaking about an aging of the soul, when a person's ka is a thousand years older than her body.

Keep things flowing in the direction of accomplishing your goals and nourishing your soul. (Chapter 4)

Heeft je vader het ooit over de Zieleneters gehad?' Torak fronste. 'Nee. Daar heb ik nog nooit van gehoord.' 'Dan moet je de enige in het hele Woud zijn.' … 'Waarom heetten ze Zieleneters?' vroeg hij, bijna zonder zijn lippen te bewegen. 'Aten ze echt zielen?' 'Wie weet? De mensen werden bang, en wanneer mensen bang zijn, worden geruchten tot waarheid.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

We said that we had to please ourselves first, that was the point of what being an artist was all about. If you didn't keep your integrity in the face of hard commercial decisions, you were lost. Your soul was dead.

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

However hard you try one can never be a great Hindu, Muslim, Christian, or whatever. One can only be a great unbranded soul once the soul becomes refined, undefined. It simply dissolves its greatness into humility personified, ego neutralized, and gets eternally MickeyMized.

What seems ninety nine percent impossible through the prism of your mind, seems absolutely possible through your soul's eyes. Minds have learnt to doubt even your own ability while our souls know simply how to trust. Dissolve your mind if you must, open up to all possibilities through your soul's eyes, MickeyMize.

I felt myself sinking into the killer's eyes and into his soul. It was a cold and bitterly lonely place. There was no wind or sunlight there, only intense pain. I felt it, all of it.

Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.

The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

Hay que vivir! Y él me enseñó a vivir, él nos enseñó a vivir, a sentir la vida, a sentir el sentido de la vida, a sumergirnos en el alma de la montaña, en el alma del lago, en el alma del pueblo de la aldea, a perdernos en ellas para quedar en ellas.

A mí me sobra el cuerpo, Orfeo, me sobra el cuerpo porque me falta alma

I cannot imagine how anyone can go through life without carrying the memories of his childhood on the surface of his soul.

El alma es un manantial que sólo se revela en lágrimas.

to enjoy the flesh of one's own soul).

Comprar yo su cuerpo... su cuerpo...! ¡Si me sobra el mío, Orfeo, me sobra el mío! Lo que yo necesito es alma, alma, alma