“Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he… — Plato Copy Share Image
... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
LOVE: Deception of the flesh and damage to the spirit. Disease of the soul, atrophy of the brain, weakening of the heart,… — Renzo Novatore Copy Share Image
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What was it that made this human love so much more desirable to me than the love of my own kind? Was… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
In contrast to a dream a reverie cannot be recounted. To be communicated, it must be written, written with emotion and taste,… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
When Christ was about to leave the world, He made His will. His soul He committed to His father; His body He… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
There is one antidote for evil passions: the purification of our souls which takes place through the mystery of godliness. The chief… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just as gold tarnished in depth (cf. Jms. 5:3) cannot be properly purified and restored to its proper brightness unless it is… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
God is not pleased by blood – and not acting reasonably is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul,… — Manuel II Palaiologos Copy Share Image
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The age of lost innocence varies for each person. Some lose it when they learn that their childhood fantasies are merely myth,… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
That's the advice I would give to women: Don't look at the bankbook or the title. Look at the heart. Look at… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I tried to photograph the mysterious, true and magical soul of popular Spain in all its passion, love, humor, tenderness, rage, pain,… — Cristina Garcia Rodero Copy Share Image
When you parent, it's crucial you realize you aren't raising a mini-me, but a spirit throbbing with its own signature. For this… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Struggles are a part of the sacred sanctification process. There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
Do you have agendas for your children that are more important than the children themselves? Lost in the shuffle of uniforms, practices,… — William Martin Copy Share Image
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
As I experience it, appreciation of beauty is access to the soul. With beauty in our lives, we walk and carry ourselves… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Mi Corazon. Mi alma. Son tuyos." My heart. My soul. They are yours, he whispered against the generous curve of her breast… — Cindy Gerard Copy Share Image
If yoga is about life, this means ALL life, not just part of it. Together, the spiritual and the material constitute the… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student… — Georg Buhler Copy Share Image
I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Providence is wonderfully intricate. Ah! You want always to see through Providence, do you not? You never will, I assure you. You… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image