Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deepak Chopra

Every day, take some time to meditate and cultivate inner quiet. Then ask yourself what I call the "soul questions": Who am I? What do I want? What is the purpose and meaning of my life?

Deepak Chopra

We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.

Deepak Chopra

Trust that your soul has a plan, and even if you can't see it completely, know that everything will unfold as it is meant to.

Deepak Chopra

Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you. Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires. Love imposes no demands. Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole." Love expands beyond the limits of two people. Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.

Deepak Chopra

In our imaginations we believe that love is apart from us. Actually there is nothing but love, once we are ready to accept it. When you truly find love, you find yourself

The spirit does not need a body, but the body needs spirit, or it cannot live. The soul can live without a body, but the body without a soul dies

Your soul needs a Lover more than your floor needs carpet.

Aretha Franklin

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

Ben Nicholson

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Ben Okri

Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.

Barbara Kingsolver

He needs to go rub his soul against life.

Barbara Kingsolver

Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.

Barbara Kingsolver

Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.

Barbara Kingsolver

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which though doest not.

Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for any one the things you would not desire for yourself.

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

Baruch Spinoza

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

Dennis Quaid

I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

Democritus

Soul and intellect are just the same things.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.

Edgar Allan Poe

Lord help my poor soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.

Edgar Allan Poe

If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

Edgar Allan Poe

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient.

Edgar Allan Poe

The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.

Edgar Allan Poe

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

Elbert Hubbard

Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.

Eleanor Roosevelt

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.