#soul

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. ↗

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect. ↗

— Loretta Swit

#assumed #because #characters #everybody #had

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#cannot #comes #desire #entry #everyone

I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul. ↗

— Benmont Tench

#evans #holding #i #loved #me

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

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#half #like #nature #reveal #soul

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. ↗

— Saint Teresa

#always #construe #criticizing #defects #disturb

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors. ↗

— James Hillman

#forget #own #soul

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#bad #book #comes #good #labor

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#favourite-books #inspirational #sad #soul-searching #wallflower

A room without books is like a body without a soul. ↗