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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.
Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.
Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.
Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timbered, never gives; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.
The soul is the birthless, deathless, changeless part of us - the part of us that looks out from behind our eyes and has no form.
Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
I knew there was only one place to go. I sank down into the center of my soul, grew still, and listened to the Rabbi's heartbeat.
Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.
O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.
I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.
Synchronicity is an inexplicable and profoundly meaningful coincidence that stirs the soul and offers a glimpse of one's destiny.
Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire.
The question of souls is old—we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy.
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul.
Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my flesh, and keep my soul.
Nothing so demoralizes the forces of the soul as fear. Only as we realize the presence of the Lord does fear give place to faith.
I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.
The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.
It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes Present the object, but the Mind descries. We see nothing till we truly understand it.
Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case.
In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.
Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.
Consider as sin any minute of life spent on something other than saving souls for eternity from this world doomed to destruction.
Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul.
Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.
A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.
Whatever their failings as a class may be, and however likely to lose their immortal souls, lawyers do not generally lose papers.
Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?
As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
Ya called Fargo yet?” “No, I’ve been too busy trying to destroy the Guild and corrupt Simon’s soul. Being evil is a full-time job.
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.
The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.
After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.
If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for entrance?
You are not human,” the demon announced. “You have no soul.” “Thank you for the obvious. Did you know you have horns on your head?