The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
—Oscar Wilde
Showing posts with label soul. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soul. Show all posts
Sunday, November 02, 2025
Post #3306
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Post #3278
Suppose thyself a river and a holy pilgrimage in the land of Bharata, of which truth is the water, good actions the banks, and compassion the current ; and then, O son of Pandu, wash thyself therein, for the inward soul is not to be purified by common water.
—Hitopadesa
Sunday, July 24, 2022
Sunday, January 17, 2021
Post #3055
Let your soul shine.
It's better than sunshine.
It's better than moonshine.
Damn sure better than rain.
—Warren Haynes, American Musician
Tuesday, January 01, 2019
Post #2732
Whatever that be, which thinks, which understands, which wills, which acts, it is something celestial and divine ; and, upon that account, must necessarily be eternal.
—Cicero
—Cicero
Monday, December 31, 2018
Post #2731
I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pester'd the world ever convince me of the contrary.
—Laurence Sterne
—Laurence Sterne
Friday, December 28, 2018
Post #2730
The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thursday, December 27, 2018
Wednesday, April 04, 2018
Post #2548
Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.
—J. G. Holland
—J. G. Holland
Friday, March 23, 2018
Post #2540
The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.
—Michel de Montaigne
—Michel de Montaigne
Thursday, March 08, 2018
Post #2529
A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.
—Epictetus
—Epictetus
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Post #2513
Never let man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul! Any other issue is doubtful; the evil effect on himself is certain.
—Robert Southey
—Robert Southey
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Monday, April 11, 2016
Post #2051
I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Post #1922
The soul is only the thinking part of the body, and with the body it passes away. When death comes, the farce is over (la farce est jouée), therefore let us take our pleasure while we can.
—Julien Offray de la Mettrie
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Post #1903
The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.
—Epes Sargent
—Epes Sargent
Thursday, April 09, 2015
Post #1789
Warm your spirit by performing noble deeds, not by ignobly seeking the sympathy of your fellows, who are no better than yourself.
—Henry David Thoreau
—Henry David Thoreau
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Post #1737
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty, by how little.
—W.R. Alger
—W.R. Alger
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Post #1411
A soul,—a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.
—James Fenimore Cooper
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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