The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and – since there is no other metaphor – also the soul.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

The soul is healed by being with children.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

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.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

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

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

I take my sleep very, very important.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

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

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action – common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.