Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen G. White

Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul.

Epictetus

The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.

Epictetus

Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

Epicurus

The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.

Epicurus

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Epicurus

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

Epictetus

We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

Emily Bronte

What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

Emily Bronte

...he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same...

Emily Bronte

That is how I'm loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he's in my soul.

Emily Bronte

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere...

Emily Dickinson

How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul.

Emily Dickinson

Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul

Emily Dickinson

The Soul should always stand ajar.

Emily Dickinson

The Soul selects her own Society.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The soul never grows old.

Henrik Ibsen

That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.

Henri Nouwen

I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.

Hilary Duff

I'd been right from the start - soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't be trusted.

Hilary Duff

Soulmate" is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

Heraclitus

If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].

Heraclitus

You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.

Heraclitus

You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.

Henry Ward Beecher

The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.

Henry Ward Beecher

Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

Henry Ward Beecher

God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.

Henry Ward Beecher

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

Henry Ward Beecher

God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope and courage. It is a kind of bell or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance on the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.

Henry Ward Beecher

Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.

Helen Vendler

Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.