Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as strong to think. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: strength intelligence character intellect soul Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Learn your theories well but put them aside when you confront the mystery of the living soul. —Carl Jung More about this quote Tags: people soul theories mystery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? —John Keats More about this quote Tags: intelligence soul troubles pain Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished. —Elia Kazan More about this quote Tags: strength soul survival spirit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: future soul greatness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be nice. Funny. Smart. Generous. Kind. Feed your body with good food. Your soul with good friends. And your mind with new things. —Jillian Dodd in Love Me More about this quote Tags: life friendship kindness humor learning soul food generousity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whoever said it got easier with time was wrong, death never got easier. The pain dulls around your heart, numbing the spot the deceased inhabited in your chest—but it was never easier. Loss was still loss—a physical pain, a hurt that reaches deep inside you and smothers your soul, forever indenting their memory. —Kelsie Leverich in The Valentine’s Arrangement More about this quote Tags: memory soul pain heart loss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. —Saint Teresa of Avila More about this quote Tags: love life soul Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: learning soul children schooling harm Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have, it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet. —D. H. Lawrence More about this quote Tags: life living soul body Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. —Edward Abbey More about this quote Tags: action soul sentiment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again. … The future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. —J. G. Ballard More about this quote Tags: fear future soul boredom excitement interest Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. —Stella Adler More about this quote Tags: life memory soul art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Independence? That's a middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: soul independence earth interdependence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you're successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you're inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs. —Shannon L. Alder More about this quote Tags: love inspiration success fame soul change money Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email