Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brother Lawrence

GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable.

Brother Lawrence

I drove away from my mind everything capable of spoiling the sense of the presence of God.... I just make it my business to persevere in His holy presence... My soul has had an habitual, silent, secret conversation with God.

Eckhart Tolle

You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.

Elie Wiesel

Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Though her soul requires seeing, the culture around her requires sightlessness. Though her soul wishes to speak its truth, she is pressured to be silent.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms, and contours that conform to a single ideal of beauty and behavior, they are captured in both body and soul, and are no longer free.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The soul has no gender.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

So, let us push on now, and remember ourselves back to the wild soul. Let us sing her flesh back onto our bones.

Anna Akhmatova

It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.

Ann Voskamp

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

Ann Voskamp

The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.

Ann Voskamp

Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.

Ann Voskamp

Only speak words that make souls stronger.

Ann Voskamp

Hurry always empties a soul.

Andy Milonakis

Your face makes my soul want to eat chocolate pudding!...

Albert Camus

The soul of a murderer is blind

Albert Camus

Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.

Albert Camus

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

Alexander Crummell

It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.

Annie Lennox

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

Annie Dillard

The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.

D. H. Lawrence

My soul is my great asset and my great misfortune.

D. H. Lawrence

One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.

D. H. Lawrence

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

D. H. Lawrence

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

D. H. Lawrence

Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul.

Conrad Black

The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.

Clarence Darrow

Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

Daniel Defoe

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

Daniel Dennett

YES we have a soul but it's made of lots of tiny robots

Dan Colen

A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

Donna Tartt

For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.