Quotes with soul-wasting

Quotes 461 till 480 of 549.

  • Confucius To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Doug Horton To buy happiness is to sell soul.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Bruce Fairchild Barton To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance. To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.
    The Man Nobody Knows (1924) On Jesus, in Ch. 1 : The Executive
    Bruce Fairchild Barton
    American author, advertising executive, and politician (1886 - 1967)
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  • John Oxenham To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.
    John Oxenham
    English journalist, writer and poet (ps. of William Arthur Dunkerley) (1852 - 1941)
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  • Bette Davis To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
    The lonely life: an autobiography
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Berthold Auerbach To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Marcus Aurelius To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Muriel Spark To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion.
    Muriel Spark
    British writer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Vauvenargues To possess taste, one must have some soul.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Arnold Bennett To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Aristotle To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • St. Theresa of Lisieux True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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  • Albert Einstein True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Homer Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Judith Guest Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?
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  • Aldous Huxley Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Anatole France Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • A. Behn Variety is the soul of pleasure.
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