Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? —Socrates More about this quote Tags: truth wisdom soul money reputation honor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's a kind of love that has the power to save you, to get you through life. It's like breathing. You have to do it or you'll die. And when it's over, your soul starts to bleed. There's no pain in the world like it, I swear. —Susan Wiggs in Summer At Willow Lake More about this quote Tags: love soul pain death breathing savior Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. —Henry Ward Beecher More about this quote Tags: God soul flowers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave. —Christian Nestell Bovee More about this quote Tags: soul death earth heaven Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. —F. Scott Fitzgerald More about this quote Tags: soul darkness dark night of the soul Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never even meet. —Mary Kay Blakely More about this quote Tags: soul experience influence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A room without books is like a body without a soul. —Cicero More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge soul books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. —Stanley Kunitz More about this quote Tags: soul desire fertility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Tears are the summer showers to the soul. —Alfred Austin More about this quote Tags: soul summer tears rain Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. —Simone Weil More about this quote Tags: soul home rootedness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. —Theodore Dreiser More about this quote Tags: soul art misery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. —Alexander Pope More about this quote Tags: God soul nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The acquisition of the spirit of nonresistance is a matter of long training in self-denial and appreciation of the hidden forces within ourselves. . . . It puts different values upon things and upsets previous calculations. . . . It is the greatest force because it is the highest expression of the soul. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: soul force nonresistance training self-denial Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. —Edwin Markham More about this quote Tags: soul glory defeat victory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Any fool can love somebody who's perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn't stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they've hurt you. —Susan Elizabeth Phillips in Hot Shot More about this quote Tags: love perfection soul change hurt stretching Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email