Rabindranath Tagore writes that the song he wanted to sing has never happened because he spent his days "stringing and unstringing" his… — Joyce Rupp Copy Share Image
The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover… — Gordon Gee Copy Share Image
You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals,… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think it's just important to not judge people based on their physicality because it's really about personality and people's hearts and… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
Darkness can be funny. It can be quirky. There are different ways that that stuff comes out as a creative person. But… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
There is no other place where the heart should be so free as before the mercy seat. There, you can talk out… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“We’re not looking for any particular experience, for the breath or the body to be a special way. Rather, we’re simply listening… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
You are asking, 'Is the concept of soul mates more useful than marriage?' Concepts don't matter. What matters is your understanding. You… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To consider powerful souls as if they were a useful public resource is quite foreign to our customs. In a small sense… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
As she watched all of this, Liesel was certain that these were the poorest souls alive. That's what she wrote about them… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
You have traveled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses,… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Sugar crystallizes something in our American Soul. It is emblematic of all Industrial Processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
“if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or colors or any other great… — Plato Copy Share Image
How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me, my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running. So many… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
And I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Maybe [artistry] doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
As exercise is necessary to the development of physical muscle, so development of the moral nature is accomplished through temptation. The soul… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, "I've really been blessed. I can write these things and… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“As the bones, flesh, entrails and blood vessels are enclosed by a skin that renders the aspect of men endurable, so the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our Lord Himself, I saw alone in him, both in his and my part of this Venerable Sacrament. For, Oh, Amabilia! How… — Elizabeth Ann Seton Copy Share Image
The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I have never lived the way I lived during my short time with you. For the first time in my life, I’ve… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
With people in corsets you need, an hour and a half in you have to give somebody something, you have to have… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
My therapist shared a theory she had come across, and I liked it. It held that before making your next journey in… — Melissa Gilbert Copy Share Image
You didn't want to die. Most mortals don't, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you.… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee today. For… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
There is nothing so great or ideally beautiful as the action of God in the human soul. If we knew how to… — Elisabeth Leseur Copy Share Image
As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
![“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…” quote by Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/74d/elizabeth-gilbert-131_anguish_maybe-artistry-doesn-t-have-to-be-quite_1515328.jpg)
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