Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.
I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.
Worry drains the mind of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul
A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.
Self-loathing is the silent hemorrhaging of the soul. You don't feel or see the life force fleeing until it's not longer there, and then, of course, it's too late.
You can stay in situations just for the sake of it. That can be a very dangerous thing and tough on your soul and heart.
Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.
It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.
Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.
That luxury, ossified Los Angeles world isn't good for the soul.
Charlie Sheen has the potential to cause your soul to weep and forfeit
If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.
Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.
Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted out because their souls have been so damaged? Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could find the joy that comes with committing to our own goodness? Perhaps we would stop dividing ourselves into malignancies of various forms.
As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.
Love denied blights the soul we owe to God.
Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little.care and thought about it.
Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.
Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.
You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.
The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
