#soul

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. ↗

— Jean Paul

#god #planted #sigh #soul #unutterable

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. ↗

— Jean Paul

#air #around #beneath #break #gather

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. ↗

— Jean Paul

#everywhere #finding #gift #go #joy

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof. ↗

— Jean Paul

#brutal #crushed #ere #fall #flowers

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#between #change #course #depend #even

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense. ↗

— William Penn

#grows #love #lust #other #reason

I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated. ↗

— Sam Phillips

#care #coming #communicated #conviction #felt

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#coup #final #finish #give #grace

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. ↗

— Albert Pike

#body #combination #gold #justice #light

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach. ↗

— Pindar

#full #immortals #life #my soul #reach