Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Joanna Baillie

Tis ever thus when favours are denied; All had been granted but the thing we beg: And still some great unlikely substitute-- Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good-- Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.

George MacDonald

The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Elizabeth Gilbert

It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK because he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that--he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us.

Elizabeth Gilbert

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

Lisa Kleypas

The situation was extraordinary. How someone like Evangeline Jenner could have wrought such a change in St. Vincent, the most worldly of men, was difficult to understand. However, Westcliff had learned that the mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.

Lisa Kleypas

I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most." ~ Hardy Cates

Lisa Kleypas

A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat...the pulse that sustained his universe.

Lisa Kleypas

Oh, I have a very pure soul. It's only my private parts that have gotten me into trouble".

Lisa Alther

We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.

Lionel Blue

I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.