Soul Quotes
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
A home without books is a body without soul.Marcus Tullius Cicero
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.William James
You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.William Shakespeare
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?Bible, Mark 8: 36
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.Clarence Darrow
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self - Distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.Author Unknown
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 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
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.George Eliot
A room without books is like a body without a soul.G. K. Chesterton
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
The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self there remains nothing more for him to accomplish.Bhagavad Gita
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.Seneca
If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world.Chinese Prove
As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.Akhenaton
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
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, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
A fair woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatory to the purse, and a hell to the soul.Elizabeth Grymeston
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers - By see only a wisp of smoke.Vincent Van Gogh
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
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.Samuel Ullman
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.Plato, The Republic
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
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.Akhenaton
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway?David Merritt, a. k. a. THE RED SHARK
What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.Josh Billings
We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.John Owen
Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.Pamela Vaull Sta
All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river... In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re - Visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.Virgil
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
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
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.Martha Graham
