It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

He who angers you conquers you.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

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.‘

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

I’ve never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they’re like, ‚Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,‘ but I’m like, ‚I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,‘ so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.