Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marina and the Diamonds

I have sold my soul. I would sell my soul, if I could have it all.

Marina Abramovic

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.

Marilynne Robinson

[John] Calvin treats experience as essentially visionary and revelatory from moment to moment, addressed to the individual perceiver, the individual soul. Where this is assumed preconceptions can only distract and obscure, though, of course, as human beings we can never wholly free ourselves of them.

Maria Montessori

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

Julia Glass

Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens - but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had a far easier time of it and lived his life with the sanctified nonchalance of those who will do anything to avoid dissecting their souls.

Julia Cameron

Money cannot fill an empty soul.

Jim Jarmusch

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

Jim Jarmusch

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Nothing can disturb the calm peace of my soul.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Intuition is the whisper of the soul.

Pat Conroy

Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.

Pat Conroy

My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.

It is only when human beings see themselves simply as human beings, no longer as gods, that they are in a position to perceive the wholly other nature of God.

Julia Quinn

It suddenly made sense. Only twice in his life had he felt this inexplicable, almost mystical attraction to a woman. He’d thought it remarkable, to have found two, when in his heart he’d always believed there was only one perfect woman out there for him. His heart had been right. There was only one.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

This society is not only to relieve the poor, but to save souls.

Joseph Stalin

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Leonardo da Vinci

We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.

Leonardo da Vinci

To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.

Oscar Wilde

Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

Paul Gauguin

When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.

Paul Gauguin

Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.

Lev Grossman

It's an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek

Leon Kass

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder

Neal A. Maxwell

I thank the Savior personally; for bearing all which I added to His hemorrhaging at every pore for all humanity in Gethsemane. I thank Him for bearing what I added to the decibels of His piercing soul cry atop Calvary.

Neal A. Maxwell

Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can steady them, and are experiencing instead, a lingering sense that there is something more important they should be doing . . .as if what is quietly achieved in righteous individual living or in parenthood are not sufficiently spectacular.

Neal A. Maxwell

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

Muhammad Iqbal

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

Muhammad Iqbal

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

Mikhail Lermontov

I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if cast ashore he would weary and languish no matter how alluring the shady groves and how bright the gentle sun.

Mikhail Lermontov

my love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom.

Mark Victor Hansen

If you're prosperous in soul, you'll be prosperous in whole, regardless of how many and how much physical possessions you have