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Art that arises out of the inner landscape, and is connected to our lived experience, illuminates the darkness and heals the soul.
The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.
Formerly man had only a body and a soul. Now he needs a passport as well for without it he will not be treated like a human being.
By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
Afford every soul you encounter the wide and free passage they need to give birth to the dear expressions they feel are important.
The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.
That's what true love should be like-the person should be part of your soul and you should know what they're feeling all the time.
Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls.
In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.
On the higher plane the soul is sexless, and those who wish to rise higher than the physical plane must eliminate the idea of sex.
A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.
It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.
A great melodic line is like a person's soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are illustrating the soul.
It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.
Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.
Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
I'm not sure how anyone with a soul can make jokes about the passing of one of the most talented artists this generation will see.
True worship is not just an emotional experience. It reaches to the very depths of our souls and touches every aspect of our being
Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.
Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what's true for you about something, look to how you're feeling about it.
O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls!
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.
The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul.
She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.
Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.
But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.
We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul - satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
Whatever the mind does, the soul has perforce to suffer the consequences of it, because the soul and the mind are knotted together.
The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it will enter this glass.
Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught.
I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.
Lincoln did but pour the soul of the nation into the monumental act of universal liberty; and that soul was inspired by the gospel.
It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.
The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask
Who becomes you? No one. No one should become me. When I die, I don't want my body or soul inhabited. I wouldn't wish me on anyone.
Once a decision is made to be tasteful and risk-free, all spark, soul, variety, sleaze, spontaneity and fun go right out the window
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I should die before I awake, I pray the popular attend my wake.
Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.
A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone!
They were soul mates, my mother and father. They claimed to adore each other, as if the word 'adore' meant 'argue with ceaselessly.
Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.
I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.
The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.
Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.