Affection Quote by Mary Astell Download Open image “The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.” — Mary Astell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affection Creator Identity Love Self Soul
The soul is that which beholds beauty even when the mind denies it. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours; that which it loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul. — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“Having a soul means having the capacity to love something more than yourself.” — David Simpson Copy Share Image
He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right. — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
A husband is indeed thought by both sexes so very valuable, that scarce a man who can keep himself clean and make a bow,… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
“Strip him of equipage and fortune, and such things as only dazzle our eyes and imaginations, but don't in any measure affect our reason… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds. — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue. — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may. — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with diffiulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need… — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot… — David Axelrod Copy Share Image
The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image