Soul Quotes - Page 228

Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.

As a collector, you will discover that surrounding yourself with art can enrich not only your visual experiences, but instill a sense of vitality to your life and uplift your soul.

No one can rob us of our own soul, and our spirit is already one with the eternal goodness.

I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and mind are closely coordinated. Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say that it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul.

There are those who would love each other if once they were to speak to each other; when they spoke they would discover their souls were separated by phantoms and delusions

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.

I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.

What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.

It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.

As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.

Maybe [artistry] doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that the most extraordinary aspects of your being came from you. But maybe if you just believed that they were on loan to you from some unimaginable source for some exquisite portion of your life to be passed along when you're finished ... it starts to change everything.

The problem for me is that I can't ever really see who Gregory is, any more than I can see what a mirror by itself looks like, because he reflects whoever's around him.

Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.

Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.

Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Your great employment is to bring the individual souls of men to Christ.

A refusal to believe that God loves us is the unbelief which destroys the soul.

Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.