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
We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Suffering is to the heart and soul as tears are to the eyes, cleansing and expelling toxicity from the inner system. When… — Tian Dayton Copy Share Image
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who… — 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
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
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
I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
This is our first interest as a church-to save and exalt the souls of the children of men. There is no richer… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Scottish golf is a more public game. It is more reasonably priced and they play faster. It isn't cart golf. The only… — Daniel J. King Copy Share Image
As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
She was aware of the movement of his lips as he pressed soundless words in her palm. He released her, and the… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing happens carelessly. We’re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Chastity, non-injury, forgiving even the greatest enemy, truth, faith in the Lord, these are all different Vrittis. Be not afraid if you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows,… — Santoka Taneda Copy Share Image
The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation;… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with… — Fergie Copy Share Image
There is no difference in our souls...That is what yoga teaches. When you and I meet together, we forget ourselves -- our… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“I believe that all people allow the act of victimization to take lead in their lives without realizing or trying to stop… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
If in heroic conduct, whether of warriors, philosophers or scientists, we see what is of essential nature, then we know that all… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Growth of the soul is our goal, and there are many ways to encourage that growth, such as through love, nature, healing… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
I think that the idea that there's such a thing as a national literature that's somehow uniquely expressive of a national soul… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest. Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
It can be shown that an incorporeal and reasonable being has life in itself independently of the body... then it is beyond… — Origen Copy Share Image
The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. It is related to the… — Raisa Gorbacheva Copy Share Image
My advice is if you have to do music, then do it! There's no choice in your heart and your soul -… — Vonda Shepard Copy Share Image
Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
I wish I could write 'Taxi Driver,' or 'Blue Velvet,' something brave, audacious, dramatic and dark. I don't know if I have… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
Arise my soul, and review your deeds which have preceeded from you. Scrutinize them closely, and shed the rain of your tears,… — Andrew of Crete 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
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
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
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