Soul Quotes

Helen luke - unless a man or woman has experienced the...
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
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
Henry fielding - he that can heroically endure adversity will bear...
John donne - more than kisses, letters mingle souls....
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
What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul?
Jesus Christ, Matthew 16: 26
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
Elie Wiesel
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
E. M. Forste
Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.
Erich Fromm
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau, Simplify simplify
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.
Joseph Addison
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.
Pindar, 518 - 438 B. C.
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
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
Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
Charles Buxton
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
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
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
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
Henrik Ibsen, Norweigen Playwright
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
If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world.
Joan Boysenko, Pocketful of Miracles
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
Socrates
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley, From the poem "Invictus".
Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
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
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
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
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.
Pythagorus
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
Jules Verne, 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 34
Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.
Shneur Zalman
The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want.
Sigmund Freud
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.
Unknown
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