“It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.” BelieveSoulPoliticsBeliefGrowsMy OwnFleshFirmProportionFirm Beliefs Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of these have found a loving home in my soul.” SoulHomeInspirationFoundSilenceMagicMysteryFollowingMy SoulProportionPrivacySerenityPublicationEnchantmentAstonishmentSorceryLoving Home Author:Luis Barragan
“With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.” SoulSufferingExpectationsInfiniteAssumingPunishmentProportionMisfortunesAnticipation Author:Honore de Balzac
“Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.” KnowsMindHeartMaySoulWholeHappensLastsFacesFoundSpeakBeautyFiguresHumilityRaisesCreatorGloriousCharmProportionApologyVirtuousModestyOur ThoughtsSpeaks OutEmbellishment Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author