Elisabeth of Wied Quotes
It seems enormous to me that we have the idea of eternity, of justice, of purity, of beauty, when everything that we see is so far from all that! Who has put those visions into our heads? The soul that knows so much more than what it sees; the soul that comes from far and goes far, and to whom limits make no difference!
Elisabeth of Wied
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Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.
Laura Prepon
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
Iman
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
Patrick Marber
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.
Natasha Henstridge
I find I'm an old soul.
Rachel Roy
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
Urs Fischer
Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our most urgent problem just now is how to preserve in a positive and critical form the soul of truth in the two great traditions, classical and Christian, that are crumbling as mere dogma.
Irving Babbitt
In waking, eating, working, dreaming, sleeping,Serving, meditating, chanting, divinely loving,My soul constantly hums, unheard by any;God, God, God!
Paramahansa Yogananda
Religions grow out of the deepest needs of individuals sharing a common awakening, and are not created by 'engineers of the soul.'
Daniel Bell
The soul has no assignments, neither cooks Nor referees: it wastes its time. It wastes its time.Here in this enclave there are centuries For you to waste: the short and narrow stream Of life meanders into a thousand valleys Of all that was, or might have been, or is to be. The books, just leafed through, whisper endlessly.
Randall Jarrell
There's something about a pious man such as he. He will cheerfully cut your throat if it suits him, but he will hesitate to endanger the welfare of your immaterial and problematical soul.
Isaac Asimov
I like girls who are self-deprecating. I like girls who make fun of themselves. If you can't poke fun at yourself, what are you? I just want someone with a good soul. That's about it. The rest I'm really flexible on.
Chris Evans
Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and Prince. My parents' record collection was all I had when I was a little kid. If it wasn't that, it was something else in their collection.
Jesse McCartney
Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.
Ahmet Ertegun