Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
The deadliest blow the enemy of the human soul can strike is to do fury honor. . . . Official acceptance is… — James Agee Copy Share Image
He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another! Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“And there were moments on that first night in this fetid little paradise when I prayed that in spite of all my… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
But we are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Now and then I am asked as to "what books a statesman should read," and my answer is, poetry and novels—including short… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Time and space flowed around me in never-ending circles. I delighted in each moment of day or year. I dreamt through centuries… — Tonia Parronchi Copy Share Image
Never lose yourself on the stage. Always act in your own person, as an artist. The moment you lose yourself on the… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
“The style of a soul. Do you remember the famous philosopher who spoke of the style of a civilization? He called it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Thus, when Paul says, "Praise the Lord all you nations, and let all the peoples extol him" (Rom. 15:11), he is saying… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Dante is the first Christian poet, the first one whose whole system of thought is colored by a pure Christian theology. But… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
“When once we quit the basis of sensation, all is in the wind. To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“You and I, however, were so created that by anything and everything we do, we are saying to our Creator either “God,… — W. Ian Thomas Copy Share Image
“To Wrench the human soul from its moorings, to immerse it in terrors, ice, flames, and raptures to such an extent that… — Frederich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Folks from the backwoods were certain about two things: that every human soul needed to be free and that the responsibility of… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I see the beauty of people and the human soul in the pictures I take. And though the circumstances of some of… — G.M.B. Akash Copy Share Image
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Vegas is a testing ground for the human soul. What are our values, especially in a time of crisis? Work with Cirque… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
“Both the Hopi and Zuni Indians, who have used the venom in purification rituals, assert that it effectively reduces the human soul… — Nicholas Christopher Copy Share Image
Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled;… — Jones Very Copy Share Image
Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All that Christ did and suffered would have been necessary had only one human soul been the object of redemption; and nothing… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
“Books—even erotic ones … especially erotic ones—are simply reflections of the human soul. Sometimes they're silly and sometimes they're exaggerated, but it's… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul.… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
What elevates the human soul and empowers it to live in the fullness of its created purpose is not religious intimidation or… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
“Service is a smile. It is an acknowledging wave, a reaching handshake, a friendly wink, and a warm hug. It's these simple… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I must tell you a great truth, Much-Afraid, which only the few understand. All the fairest beauties in the human soul, its… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Movies serve many purposes, and I've visited many of those genres, from the most light, frivolous comedy that is just trying to… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
I just wonder what has been the effect on the human soul of nearly a century in which we have regarded sex… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image