Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas a Kempis

Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.

Thomas a Kempis

He that seeketh anything else but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.

Thomas Aquinas

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.

Swami Vivekananda

There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no 'you' or 'me'; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence - God.

Swami Vivekananda

The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible.

Thomas Brooks

Repentance is the vomit of the soul.

Tim O'Brien

But in a story I can steal her soul.

Thomas Willis

To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.

Thomas Traherne

The Soul is shriveled up and buried in a grave that does not love.

Richard Chamberlain

Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

Tom Brokaw

It will do us little good to wire the world if we limit our vision. It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circuit our souls.

Tom Brokaw

It doesn't do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul.

TobyMac

I don't wanna gain the whole world and lose my soul.

Tina Fey

If a bout of "creepy face" sets in, the trick is to look away from the camera between shots and turn back only when necessary. This also limits how much of your soul the camera can steal.

Tanith Lee

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

Tad Williams

You show me what someone listens to, I’ll tell you everything you want to know about his soul. (For instance, a bunch of Nickelback albums would have indicated he never had a soul in the first place.)

Sylvia Plath

I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.

Swami Vivekananda

The body cannot be the soul.

Swami Vivekananda

Bodies come and go, but the soul does not change.

Swami Vivekananda

The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only in the highest form as a human being that it attains to freedom.

Swami Vivekananda

Each soul is potentially divine.

Swami Vivekananda

Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation, we come to know the Absolute.

Swami Vivekananda

Jiva (individual soul) is the conscious ruler of this body, in whom the five life principles come into unity, and yet that very Jiva is the Atman, because all is Atman.

Swami Vivekananda

Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate.

Rona Barrett

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.

Rollo May

Forge in the smithy of your soul.

Rumi

What is planted in each person's soul will sprout.

Rumi

My soul Is Naked. It wears The Transparent Garment Of Love.

Rumi

A soul which is not clothed with the inner garment of Love should be ashamed of its existence.

Rumi

Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.

Rumi

Pure souls, didn’t I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter.