Soul Quotes
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
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.Emily Dickenson
No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk - Handsome, twentytwoyearold.Vladimir Mayakovsky
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.Stella Adle
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul.John Keats
He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.Constance Naden
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
The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.Phillips Brooks
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.Swami Sivanada
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.Joseph Addison
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.Emily Dickinson
The self - Controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.Bhagavad Gita
The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.Thomas Traherne
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.Paxton Hood
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.Henry Fielding
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.Elie Wiesel
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.Saint Teresa of Avila
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Berthald Auerbach
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe - Struck before his soul.Kahlil Gibran
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.George W. Bush, Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.Alfred Tennyson
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.James Joseph Sylveste
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
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.Robert Louis Stevenson
Heaven - Born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.Michelangelo Buonarroti
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.Charles De Gaulle
There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.Ernest Hello
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.Edgar Allen Poe
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.Joseph Brodsky
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.Socrates
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
Live a life as a monument to your soul.Ayn Rand
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
