Renaissance Soul Quotes

#1. Can't decide which life or career path is right for you? Maybe you don't have to! In The Renaissance Soul, Margaret Lobenstine offers inspiration, advice, and practical tips for people with more than one burning passion.

Laurence Boldt

#2. The battle for public support for the wars was played out through a combination of the liberal 'feminist' discourse of rights and the hawkish premise that only carpet-bombing the oppressive enemy could solve the problem.

Nina Power

#3. Just as a human soul that faces great difficulties also faces great opportunities for spiritual growth, so a human society that faces destruction also faces the opportunity to enter a period of renaissance. I think that, barring an accident, the wish to survive will keep us from a nuclear war.

Peace Pilgrim

#4. I ordered a soda - caffeine-free, low sodium, no artificial flavors. They brought me a glass of water.

Robert E. Murray

#5. But who could agree with someone who was so certain you were going to be sober the day after tomorrow?

Malcolm Lowry

#6. He says nothing. Not because he disagrees, or disapproves, but because he's crying. Faintly I hear my father sniffling and wiping away tears, and I know he's proud, just incapable of expressing it. I can't fault the man for not knowing how to say what's in his heart. It's the family curse.

Andre Agassi

#7. Don't regret what might have been. Accept what is and rejoice in what is yet to be.

MaryAnn Koopmann

#8. The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

Marsilio Ficino

#9. Men of cold passions have quick eyes.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#10. We're on the eve of destruction. Men have lost all sense of honor. Power has become their faith instead of faith being their power.

Atiq Rahimi

#11. Renaissance philosophers often said that it is the soul that makes us human. We can turn that idea round and note that it is when we are most human that we have greatest access to the soul.

Thomas Moore

#12. For no falsehood can endure
Touch of celestial temper.

John Milton

#13. The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write ... I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance - the revolt of the soul against the intellect.

William Butler Yeats

#14. In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.

Jean-Paul Marat

#15. And be grateful that you're a Scanner. Not everyone can have this much fun with nothing but what's between her ears.

Barbara Sher

#16. A lot of the really great stuff fell between the tracks.

Eydie Gorme

#17. The socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only come to pass, either through the programme of institutional upbringing, or through the intimate renaissance of the home.

Ellen Key

#18. You allow others to weave your world. It's almost as if you don't have control of yourself.

Jack Thanatos

#19. Women are directly fitted for acting as the nurses and teachers of our early childhood by the fact that they are themselves childish, frivolous and short-sighted; in a word, they are big children all their life long - a kind of intermediate stage between the child and the full-grown man,

Arthur Schopenhauer