Soul
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If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won't make your soul pretty.
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul'. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist'.
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
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