Soul Quotes

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

William Hazlitt

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - It is a palliative rather than a remedy.

Peter De Vries

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

Plato

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Henry David Thoreau, Simplify simplify

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Marcus Aurelius

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Tom Robbins

Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Mille

Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.

Thomas Fulle

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Emily Dickinson

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Jacques Prvert

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

Homer, The Iliad

An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Gustav Jung

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Judy Garland

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Antonio Gramsci

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Mark Twain

It is with narrow - Souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.

Alexander Pope

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthu

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

George Bancroft

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

George Eliot

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

Psalm 42, Book II, Holy Bible

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

Victor Hugo

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.

William Ellery Channing

Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Pamela Vaull Sta

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

George Santayana

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Aphra Behn

The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.

Indian Prove

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

Frederick William Fabe

To them that ask, where have you seen the gods, or how do you know for certain there are gods, that you are so devout in their worship I answer Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Aesop

Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.

Theodore Herman Albert Dreise

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Pamela Vaull Sta

Flowers feed the soul.

Mohammad