PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.
I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.
I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.
What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.
Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.
I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.
Music is the most natural thing in the world. When we go to a gig and we all like it and we share that experience, it's the same sense of communion as a sacred rite in Borneo or wherever it may be; it just gets dressed up different. Its good for the soul.
When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.
I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your soul.
I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul.
What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.
As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt its spread before it turns the soul of a society septic.
I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
Running was a part of my hardwiring, and that's what I wanted to do. So this is what I tell people who talk about wanting to follow their passion. 'It doesn't have to be running. It can be basket weaving. Be the best basket weaver in the world. Throw your heart and soul into it.'
Soul music is timeless.
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?
O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made whole in body and in soul, I may be accounted worthy to approach the Holy of holies.
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
What I really wanted to do was take this character and go beneath the veneer of Lucifer. Underneath it all, there was a guy who was a hurt soul and rejected from his father. How that played upon his choices was kind of interesting, but also it's going inside a shell of someone who doesn't know what an emotion is.
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.
I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
