“To nourish the soul means to become kinder, more compassionate, wiser, and more loving, often through the making of difficult choices that foster growth rather than safety. The nourishment and growth of the soul is the very reason for human life.” HumansMeanSoulReasonChoicesDifficultGrowthSafetyHuman LifeCompassionateWiserNourishmentKinderDifficult Choices Author:Joan Z. Borysenko
“Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of technique and yet make it plain to the student that these are but the 'means' and not an end in themselves.” MeanArtSoulEndsDifficultImaginationStudentsArt IsFundamentalsTechnique Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting
“I really believe, in my heart and soul, that if we would rebuild and strengthen the family structure in the country, you'd start to really deal with a number of the most difficult problems we're having in the country today, in poverty, education, and in crime, but we've broken the family structure up.” IfsBelieveHeartSoulCountryProblemTodayDifficultDealsNumbersPovertyCrimeBrokenMy HeartStructureHeart And SoulDifficult Problems Author:Sam Brownback
“On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the individual as a human soul or as the bearer of a new and possibly saving heresy, must be free. It is difficult enough to reconcile these two needs, but the problem holds another hazard: the need of action under the pressure of time.” NeedsHumansTwoSoulEnoughProblemHandsActionIndividualDifficultCommonPressureInstitutionsSavingHuman SoulHeresyVigorousReconcileHazardsCoerce Author:Jacques Barzun
“Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.” WellsSoulBodyAgeDifficultPleasureAdventureOld AgeDiminishThoughts Of Death Author:Andre Maurois
“There is a note that comes into the human voice by which you may know real weariness. It comes when one has been trying with all his heart and soul to think his way along some difficult road of thought. Of a sudden he finds himself unable to go on. Something within him stops. A tiny explosion takes place. He bursts into words and talks, perhaps foolishly. Little side currents of his nature he didn't know were there run out and get themselves expressed. It is at such times that a man boasts, uses big words, makes a fool of himself in general.” ThinkingKnowsMenWayTryingHumansHeartMayLittlesHas BeensRealSoulUseBigsRunningDifficultSidesVoiceFoolGoes OnNotesCurrentsTinyBoastExplosionsHeart And SoulWearinessHuman Voice Book:Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories Source: Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories
“Creativity is basically a feminine process. I'm convinced that we have in our soul, everybody, this masculine side and this feminine side. So at the end of the day, you always use this feminine creative energy to write or to do any type of art or creativity. So if I see that my protagonist is feminine, it's not more difficult, no. And even when my protagonist is masculine, I'm writing from using this feminine energy.” IfsWritingArtSoulEndsUseEnergyProcessDifficultSidesCreativityCreativeTypeConvincedThe End Of The DayFeminineMasculineProtagonistsCreative EnergyFeminine Energy Author:Paulo Coelho
“Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.” NeedsKindSoulCertainEvilDifficultClassGreatnessParticularUniqueInfiniteVariety Book:Thoughts of Blaise Pascal Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal