TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long tenanted it is considered no sin to break them open and rifle them, the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Huggyns, explaining that a tomb may be innocently glened as soon as its occupant is done smellynge, the soul being then all exhaled. This reasonable view is now generally accepted by archaeologists, whereby the noble science of Curiosity has been greatly dignified.
Soul Quotes (2746 Quotes)
Resorting to violence is a terrible, terrible thing to do, ... you have to be aware of what you're dealing with and follow your soul.
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
NATIVE vigor of impulses and desires conserved by education and experience, the establishment of inner harmony and cooperation among the powers and capacities of the soul, the formation of a life purpose, and the direction of the individual life in accordance with the eternal principles of right that underlie human progress, these are the elements of both strength and righteousness in human character.
Music is the art of the prophets, the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul...
Life is but an unfair circle, intertwined among the ruins of my salvation as a soul of this universe. My humble despair deserves no such fate perhaps sometime in the near distant future I may live to say 'this really sucks'
All you have to do is open up a little bit and then you'll be experiencing a part of that person's soul. It's just there -- in the presence of a beautiful painting, a creation, something created by someone else. This is insight into not who they are physically, but who they are on this other plane, so, what makes it magic, always, is to hear music performed live.
There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth
A Johns Hopkins doctor says that 'we do not know why it is that the worriers die sooner than the non-worriers, but that is a fact.' But I, who am simple of mind, think I know we are inwardly constructed, in nerve and tissue and brain cell and soul, for faith and not for fear. God made us that way. Therefore, the need of faith is not something imposed on us dogmatically, but it is written in us intrinsically. We cannot live without it. To live by worry is to live against Reality.
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul.
Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.
Every song I've ever written was while I'm really emotional, maybe happy or maybe sad. Writing songs from those situations and experiences captures my soul, and things I can't express with people just talking to me. It's really intimate.
Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis says it's very painful ... New Orleans is like the soul of our country.
The human soul, as a part of the movement of life, is endowed with the ability to participate in the uplift, elevation, perfection, and completion.
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
Ere you lie down to sleep in the night, sit still awhile, and nurse again to life your gentler self. Forget the restless, noisy spirit of the day, and encourage to speech the soft voices within you that timidly whisper of the peace of the quiet night and occasionally look out at the quiet stars. The night will soothe you like a tender mother, folding you against her soft bosom, and hiding you from the harm of the world. Though denied and rejected by men in the light of day, the night will not reject you and in the still of her soft shadows you are free. After the days struggle there is no freedom like unfettered thoughts, no sound like the music of silence. And though behind you lies a road of dust and heat and discouragement, and before you the challenge and uncertainty of untried paths, in this brief hour you are master of all highways, and the universe nestles in your soul.
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
I am the master in my fate I am the captain of my soul.
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
A home without books is a body without soul.
Ultimate hope constitutes the anchor of the soul.
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
To be seeing the world made new every morning, as if it were the morning of the first day, and then to make the most of it for the individual soul, as if it were the last day is the daily curriculum of the mind's desire.
But the effort, the effort And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.
The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
When, as President Joseph F. Smith said, we 'catch a spark from the awakened memories of the immortal soul, 'let us be quietly grateful. When of great truths we can say 'I know,' that powerful spiritual witness may also carry with it the sense of our having known before. With rediscovery, we are really saying 'I know again'
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
I am nothing special of this I am sure. I am just a common man with common thoughts. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, that has always been enough.
Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have great wealth in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls.
The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. God forbid that I should justify you till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me. My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul.
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
Happy is the soul that has something to look backward to with pride, and something to look forward to with hope.
The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds.
With eyes up-rais'd, as one inspir'd, Pale Melancholy sate retir'd, And from her wild sequester'd seat, In notes by distance made more sweet, Pour'd thro' the mellow horn her pensive soul.
Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.
If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft, And of thy meager store Two loaves alone to thee are left, Sell one, and with the dole Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.
I don't love you as if you were a rose of salt, topazor arrow of carnations that propagate fireI love you as one loves certain dark things,secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.
Cause he's not about show business, but he's about soul business. He's why I'm a soul singer.
How do I love thee Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.