Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

We can also allow our Soulmate to pass us by,without accepting him or her,or even noticing. Then we will need another incarnation in order to find that Soulmate. And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.

Paulo Coelho

I'm proud of the scars in my soul. They remind me that I have an intense life.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.

Paulo Coelho

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

Quintilian

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

Quentin Crisp

Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.

Prince Charles

Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.

Plotinus

Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.

Plotinus

The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.

Plotinus

There is one and the same soul in many bodies.

Plotinus

Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.

Plotinus

Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe

Pliny the Elder

In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.

Plutarch

Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world with contempt; but a truly noble spirit appears greatest in distress;

Pierre Bayle

I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.

Phillips Brooks

To whatever world He carries our souls when they shall pass out of these imprisoning bodies, in those worlds these souls of ours shall find themselves part of the same great temple; for it belongs not to this earth alone.

Phillips Brooks

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

Naveen Andrews

I've always liked women who are older. They seem to know who they are, and they've lived. They've got soul, and that's very attractive.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.

Mother Teresa

The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do something for him or her. It is not chance; it has been planned by God. We are bound by conscience to help him or her.

Mother Teresa

From the moment a soul has the grace to know God, she must seek.

Victor Hugo

The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.

Victor Hugo

I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

Victor Hugo

There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

Victor Hugo

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

Victor Hugo

What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

Richard Bach

Sense of family is enormously important to me. In the larger sense, we're all of us family; we're all of us soulmates.

Richard Bach

Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

Robert Frost

But this we know, the obstacle that checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit on Further than target ever showed or shone.

Richard Strauss

The aria, after all, is the soul of opera.

Richard Eberhart

Mind is a most delicate evidence. Not a soul has seen it yet.