This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
“Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
The things that really shake the human soul aren't beauty or kindness. Although such things are certainly moving, but those feelings don't… — Fuyumi Soryo Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the body was not a cage that held the soul, but a hand that gripped it like a cane, appearing to… — Christopher R. Beha Copy Share Image
The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Unforgiveness gets a bad reputation, but allow me to say something that perhaps has never been said before. The deeper the depths… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“But we as a culture have lost the deep intuitive understanding that Creation exists on many levels. We have succumbed to the… — Andrew Cort Copy Share Image
“Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened and will happen to the human soul, but… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“I will not try to describe the beauty of life in a Swarm ‒ their zero-gravity globe cities and comet farms and… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need… — Franz Winkler Copy Share Image
In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Even in former days, Korea was known as the 'hermit kingdom' for its stubborn resistance to outsiders. And if you wanted to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Dear brother, I feel what Pa and Ma instinctively think about me (I don’t say reasonably). There’s a similar reluctance about taking… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
My feeling is, personally, I want to die first... because I believe that when you die, your soul goes immediately up for… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Maria was not permitted to walk in the garden; but sometimes, from her window, she turned her eyes from the gloomy walls,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“The spirit is one of the most neglected parts of man by doctors and scientists around the world. Yet, it is as… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book. A message to us from the dead - from human… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my… — Alice James Copy Share Image
“The Holy ... Machine ?" I mumbled. "Yes." She gave a little laugh. "A great miracle. He is a kind of robot,… — Chris Beckett Copy Share Image
Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
“The desire to lift, the willingness to help, and the graciousness to give come from a heart filled with love. The poet… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“Government is the human attempt to mandate goodness and ensure fairness. Yet there is only one place where goodness is born, and… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“A person must find the courage to live a complete and full life. We learn to live when we stop being afraid… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Man’s mortality is therefore a phenomenon that runs counter to his nature in that it opposes that for which he has been… — Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou Copy Share Image
With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the… — Francis Arinze Copy Share Image
The temple is concerned with things of immortality. It is a bridge between this life and the next. All of the ordinances… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“imperceptible, element of contempt for those over whom the power is exercised. One can only dominate another human soul if one knows,… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical… — Wittgenstein Ludwig Copy Share Image
Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strenthen… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Sometimes we talked about the nature of the human soul and about the Cosmic Unity of souls that I had believed in… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down,… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
The human heart cries out for help; the human soul implores us for deliverance; but we do not heed their cries, for… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Anyway, it struck me now in a different light, as being yet another bit of personal meaning which had ben taken from… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image