Animum Quotes & Sayings

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.) — Horace

[35] Caelum non animum mutant The man who is not content where he is, would never have been content somewhere else, though he might have complained less. Donal Grant, ch. 31 — George MacDonald

The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath.
[Lat., Quin corpus onustum
Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una
Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.] — Horace

Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that overlap in the sets of their attributes ... Contrary to the assertions of Lakoff and some of the cognitive metaphor theorists, people can read through to an underlying mapping, but only when the surface metaphor is new to them. — Don Paterson

caelum, non animum mutant, for instance - climate may change, but not character - and — Kathleen Rooney

If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
[Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid
Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.] — Horace

I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening. — Darren Shan

I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn. — Maurice Strong

Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat. (to arts unknown he bends his wits, and alters nature.) — Ovid

I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters ... yet people are trying to pull me down. — Nick Simmons

It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if a civilized people has ever given admission to any of them, that people will be found to have received them from ignorant and barbarous ancestors. — David Hume

You are the universe - that's why it shines! — Jay Woodman