Soul Quotes
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.Woody Allen
I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and love flooded my soul.Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I sat down and wept
The soul of this man is in his clothes.William Shakespeare
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.Plato
It is amazing that our souls - - Our eternal essences, with all their hopes an dreams and visions of an eternal world - - Are contained within these temporal bodies.Marion Woodman
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.Ecclesiastes
Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.John Fletcher, 1647
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.Woody Allen, Annie Hall
The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.Alain
Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.Edgar Allen Poe
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.Oliver Wendell Holmes
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.Jesse Louis Jackson
Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.Erich Fromm
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
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.Mary Shelley
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.Marquis de Sade
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.Alice James
Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God.W. E. Orchard
My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.Aldous Huxley
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.Mahatma Gandhi
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.Pinda
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.Frederick Douglas
The best richness is the richness of the soul.Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
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
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.William S. Gilbert
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.Martha Graham
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.John Ruskin
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.Maya Angelou
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.J. R. R. Tolkien
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen.The Talmud
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.Tom Robbins
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.John Ruskin
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.Deepak Chopra
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.Ingrid Bergman
