#soul

Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher! ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#chefs #dishwasher #goes #into #japanese

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. ↗

— William Morris

#body #energies #exercising #exist #feels

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#being #blow #clown #forces #human

My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

#food #friends #gave #me #my soul

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. ↗

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#degree #genius #go #imagination #intelligence

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#art #cunning #face #final #gods

Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#be careful #because #believes #body #careful

The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much. ↗

— W. H. Murray

#loves #loving #more #much #she

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#confuse #dies #disloyalty #dissent #i

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#america #attention #i #i see #paying