Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Read Summary
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. Read Summary
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress. Read Summary
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. Read Summary
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. Read Summary
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul. Read Summary
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. Read Summary
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. Read Summary
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. Read Summary
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. Read Summary
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. Read Summary
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. Read Summary
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. Read Summary
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. Read Summary
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. Read Summary
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. Read Summary
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. Read Summary
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. Read Summary
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. Read Summary
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. Read Summary