Farid al-Din Attar Quotes

Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being.

Farid al-Din Attar

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• I describe a soulmate as a 'soul-nurturing mate' - someone who nurtures your soul - thereby promoting insight and growth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Soul
  • Growth
  • Someone

• I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Soul
  • Star
  • Thought

• Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• I just want to continue to pursue dancing. I want to focus on making it out there and showing everybody my heart and soul through dance... and do it until I can't walk anymore.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Focus

• Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Place

• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can … But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Soul

• The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.

  

  Alice Walker
  • People
  • World
  • Soul

• The sophist is concerned with wisdom, not for its own sake, not because he hates the lie in the soul more than anything else, but for the sake of the honor or the prestige that attends wisdom.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Soul
  • Wisdom
  • Honor

• It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Thinking
  • Soul

• Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Words

• A lot of people were getting million-dollar deals from music I felt was trash, because their videos were going viral. I wanted to put out music that had soul, because that's what was missing.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • Music
  • Soul

• The job of singing is to stay open to the river of soul in all its manifestations, the dark and the light, without letting your ego get in the way. I never want to be bigger than the song. I just want you to receive it.

  

  Jennifer Warnes
  • Job
  • Soul
  • Song

• For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, 'Where's your home?' I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Soul

• The lemonade is weak, like your soul.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Soul

• While the arm is strong to strike and heave, Let soul and arm give shape that will abide...

  

  George Eliot
  • Soul
  • Strong

• The Father and the Son have one Will, and that Will is the Holy Ghost, Who gives Himself to the soul so that the Divine Nature permeates the powers of the soul so that it can only do God-like works.

  

  Meister Eckhart
  • God
  • Nature
  • Father

• It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

  

  Francis J. Grimke
  • Time
  • Soul

• The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.

  

  C. P. Scott
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Free

• The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Soul
  • Beauty
  • Walk Alone

• I'd hate wearing suits every day.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Hate
  • Wearing
  • Suits

• I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Make
  • Refuse

• Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

  

  Aristotle
  • History
  • Poetry
  • Particular

• Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being.

  

  Farid al-Din Attar
  • Soul
  • Retreat
  • Deepest