#soul

Besides this I place another equally obvious confirmation of my view that opera is based on the same principles as our Alexandrian culture. Opera is the birth of the theoretical man, the critical layman, not of the artist: one of the most surprising facts in the history of all the arts. It was the demand of throughly unmusical hearers that before everything else the words must be understood, so that according to them a rebirth of music is to be expected only when some mode of singing has been discovered in which textword lords it over counterpoint like master over servant: For the words, it is argued, are as much nobler than the accompanying harmonic system as the soul is nobler than the body. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#lyrics #music #soul #art

Being in nature refreshes us by ... allowing us to surrender to involuntary attention: the effortless and often enjoyable noticing of sensory stimuli in our environment. ↗

— Jennifer Ackerman

#nature

You see what kills your body but you don't see what kills your soul. ↗

— Lacey Mosley

#death #god #inspirational #kill #life

Each soul has its own note to sing in the divine chorus and no voice is more important than another. (94) ↗

— Prem Prakash

#uniqueness #universe #yoga

The soul ... has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. ↗

— James Joyce

#soul #religion

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#daily #daily life #dust #life #off

There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls have touched. Our minds touched. Our hearts touched. Our souls touched. We separate. ↗

— James Frey

#love #people #soul #love

The secret and the sacred are sisters. When the secret is not respected, the sacred vanishes. Consequently, reflection should not shine too severe or aggressive a light on the world of the soul. ↗

— John O'Donohue

#reflection #sacred #secret #shine #soul

Your eyes show the strength of your soul. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#strength

She turned and looked at him. "Ducks?" she said again. A smile tugged the edge of his mouth. "I hate ducks. Don't know why. I just always have. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #ducks #jace #smile