John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.

Hey! My body may be small, but my soul is large. It’s why I wear platforms. So I can reach the top of my soul.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

The face is the soul of the body.

The body with its perfect mechanism loses power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness, when the soul departs from the body. This shows that the power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness belong to the soul.

Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?

What you're constantly seeking isn't a style, but a transparency between your soul and the words. And your soul is ever in flux, so therefore you have to constantly find new forms of words that might be able to register these changes in the soul.

...notice how he will come to manhood with his own particular soul bespeaking itself through the windows which are his eyes, and such lovely eyes surely do prophesy and indicate the loveliest of souls.

It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?

Your body's just a vehicle, transporting the soul. It's what's inside of people, is beauty to behold.

The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.

Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body.

Your body is the harp of the soul.

If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

The body is the instrument of the soul.

Bodies always understand each other, even when the souls do not.

Glamour is something more than what you put on your body. It has to do with the way you carry yourself and the impact you have on others.

Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.

Style is the only thing you can't buy. It's not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It's something reflected from our soul to the outside world. An emotion.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.