Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.[Douglas Adams] Quote:Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] Quote:Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.[Aristotle] Quote:I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Haven't you learned anything from that guy that gives those sermons in church? Captain What's-his-name. We live in a society of laws, why do you think I took you to see all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well I didn't hear anybody laughing! Did you? Except at that guy who made sound effects. Vroom! Beep! Honk! Honk! Ha-ha. Where was I? Oh yeah, stay out of my booze![Homer Simpson] Quote:I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.[Booker T. Washington] Quote:More than kisses, letters mingle souls.[John Donne] Quote:Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.[John Donne] Quote:Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.[Bruce Lee] Quote:We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.[Edgar Watson Howe] Quote:A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.[Christopher Morley] Quote:I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.[Dave Barry] Quote:I have not felt remotely cool for a long time, thanks largely to the relentless efforts of my teenage son, whose goal in life is to make me feel 3,500 years old. We'll be in the car, and he'll say, 'You wanna hear my new CD?' And I, flattered that he thinks his old man might like the same music he does, will say 'Sure!' So he increases the sound-system volume setting from '4' to 'Meteor Impact,' and he puts in a CD by a band with a name like 'Pustule,' and the next thing I know gigantic nuclear bass notes have blown out all the car windows and activated both the driver- and passenger-side air bags, and I'm writhing on the floor, screaming for mercy with jets of blood spurting three feet from my ears. My son then ejects the CD, smiling contentedly, knowing he as purchased a winner. On those extremely rare occasions when I like one of his CDs, I imagine he destroys it with a blowtorch.[Dave Barry] Quote:Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.[Aristotle] Quote:Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom, and you will have everything.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:When we die, our bodies are buried. When we live, our souls are buried.[Jason Mechalek] Quote:Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.[Saint Augustine] Quote:As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:A stream cannot rise larger than its source.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.[George Carlin] Quote:Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have: Cincinnati sounds worse.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.[Socrates] Quote:The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.[Thomas Sowell] Quote:For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.[Woody Allen] Quote:If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given tous fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.[Albert Camus] Quote:A room without books is like a body without a soul.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.[Albert Einstein] Quote:The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.[David Gemmell] Quote:Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soulmate is the one you are actually married to.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.[Brian Tracy] Quote:The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.[George MacDonald] Quote:To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.[Anais Nin] Quote:In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.[Plato] Quote:Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.[Plato] Quote:The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.[Plato] Quote:How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:"Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach. [Pindar] Quote:But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable. [E. M. Forster] Quote:The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. [Henry Miller] Quote:Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, <br>Is the immediate jewel of their souls: <br>Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; <br>'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; <br>But he that filches from me my good name <br>Robs me of that which not enriches him <br>And makes me poor indeed. [William Shakespeare] Quote:Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. [Denis Diderot] Quote:The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. [Elizabeth Cady Stanton] Quote:Safeguard the health both of body and soul. [Cleobulus] Quote:Weird, isn't it? Somehow in the dead of winter when its 40 below, so cold your words just freeze in the air, you think you'll never hear a robin's song again or see a blossom on a cherry tree, when one day you wake up and bingo, light coming through the mini blinds is softened with a tick of rose and the cold morning air has lost its bite. It's spring once again, the streets are paved with mud and the hills are alive with the sound of mosquitos. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. [Abigail Adams] Quote:We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. [Abigail Adams] Quote:Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. [Abigail Adams] Quote:Wagner's music is better than it sounds. [Chuck] Quote:They're slobbery and they're whiney and they look at you just like they could see right into your soul and they're unpredictable and the smell and they're noisy and the world revolves around them and why!? I don't get it. They're not interesting. They can't tell jokes, they don't have opinions, and they're boring, you know? They're just boring and annoying and I don't want to have one. [Barbara Hall] Quote:You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act. [Barbara Hall] Quote:The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. [Albert Einstein] Quote:You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body. [Juvenal] Quote:And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Envy is the ulcer of the soul. [Socrates] Quote:The fates have given mankind a patient soul. [Homer] Quote:The fates have given mankind a patient soul. [Homer] Quote:The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. [Plato] Quote:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. [Plato] Definitions of: souDefinition: An old French copper coin, equivalent in value to, and now displaced by, the five-centime piece (1/20 of a franc), which is popularly called a sou. |
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