Soul Quotes - Page 67

Theory is good for the intellect, but action is good for the soul. It's also good for your mental health, your physical health, and your pocketbook.

And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your soul.

It's some chopped liver. That's Jewish soul food.

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.

Fasting, as some people speculate, is not a bodily torture, martyrdom, or a cross, but it is a way to elevate the body to reach the level of cooperation with the soul. When we fast, our intention is not to torture the body but to shun its behaviour. Thus, one who fasts becomes a spiritual and not a physical person. Fasting is an ascetic soul which takes the body with it as its partner in asceticism.

The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

Time spent in honor of God for the salvation of souls is never badly spent.

O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.

Love is the Song of the Soul singing to God.

It enables me to go to bed with an enriching feeling in my soul and the belief that I am changing myself.

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering.

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

As I wish for you dreams that will soothe your soul, dreams that will whisper of secrets untold. I wish for you dreams that will capture your life, dreams so spectacular and bright you can know no strife. I wish for you my child, a dream as brilliant as sunrise, and warm as it's gentle rays. But most of all precious one, I dream for you, of many peaceful days.

I see the invisible spirits, where demons still find it livable. I need a hug to hold my soul inside my body.

Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary, it is a high training of the soul, essential to the soul's growth, to its unfoldment.

He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.

Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know, and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on.

What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart.