If that condition of mind and soul, which we call inspiration, lasted long without intermission, no artist could survive it. The strings… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
“But this is human life: the war, the deeds, The disappointment, the anxiety, Imagination’s struggles, far and nigh, All human; bearing in… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Where is it that we were together? Who were you that I lived with? The brother. The friend. Darkness, light. Strife and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there; Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek Love lights Her fire from that flame. When beauty… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Simplicity brings back the joys of Paradise. Not that we have pure pleasure without a moment's suffering, but when we are surrendered… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay: And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“From where I am," the sun said, "I can see the Soul of the World. It communicates with my soul, and together… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Sin is a lonely thing, a worm wrapped around the soul, shielding it from love, from joy, from communion with fellow men… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
Faith is the soul's witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Entertaining for a moment that it is purepsychology, the that "soul" is a concept in the imagination and nothing more, what can… — Jim Ford Copy Share Image
After all the dangerous adventures I'd had, I couldn't die like this. Sadie would be devastated. Then, once she got over her… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It is not a question of sitting silently, it is not a question of chanting a mantra. It is a question of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Joy is the characteristic by which God uses us to re-make the distressing into the desired, the discarded into the creative. Joy… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Growing up we were secular Jews, but what I got out of Judaism at that time in my life was questions. Everything… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When I ask the angels for answers to the human mystery, I find they guide me to a sense of peace and… — Terry Taylor Copy Share Image
We are individualized aspects of that oversoul, and the individualized soul - yours and mine and everyone else's on the planet -… — Benjamin Creme Copy Share Image
My story is a freedom song from within my soul. It is a guide to discovery, a vision of how even the… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
You may think you find peace in Christ when you have no outward troubles, but is Christ your peace when the Assyrian… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
“...the human soul is a divine non-substance. A spirit that permeates our flesh, dwells in our conscious, and rules our subconscious self.… — Nick Tran Copy Share Image
It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Soul development depends on attachment and bonding. Every brain and body is genetically wired to develop itself, but the full soul development… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
His warmth was all around me, as was his love, and again, I felt that completeness. I had that missing piece of… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Alas! fond child, How are thy thoughts beguil'd To hope for honey from a nest of wasps? Thou may'st as well Go… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“...use of the soul in Buffy: a personal or cultural belief which is blind to all else, which refuses to acknowledge gray… — Jim Ford Copy Share Image
Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it… — William James Copy Share Image
Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast, That still the knot, in spite of death, does last; For as your tears,… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
