#soul

Tears are the summer showers to the soul. ↗

— Alfred Austin

#soul #summer #tears

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#endeavor #follies #god #him #like

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#communion #effect #ideas #images #minds

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#economist #english #ever #gentleman #his

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#form #identifying #important #important step #latter

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs. ↗

— Rona Barrett

#free #grabs #ironic #jungle #life

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#any #conditions #does #his #life

I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#am #bottom #done #everything #full

Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#against #am #frightening #grave #i

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth. ↗

— Martha Beck

#good #how #matter #may #nothing