Soul Quotes
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.Amelia Earhart
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
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.Plato, The Republic
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.Victor Hugo
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
The soul of this man is in his clothes.William Shakespeare
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.Soren Kierkegaard
The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.Rona Barrett
They say dreams are the windows of the soul - - Take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.Louise Erdrich
Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.Dax Ward
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.John Bunyan
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.Johannes Meister Eckhart
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.Denis Diderot
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.Michael Bridge
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.Ambrose of Milan
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.Michael Bridge
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.Gaston Bachelard
Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13
Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.Henry David Thoreau, Simplify simplify
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
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.Joseph Addison
The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.W. H. Murray
We stare into the fire of life, the flame of the soul, Yet we stand, so far away, Basking in the eternal energy that flows from within it, We stand back, too scared to approach the flames.Unknown
What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul?Jesus Christ, Matthew 16: 26
Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.Rabbi Harold Kushne
Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?Anne Frank
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.E. M. Forste
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.Frederick Douglas
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1. That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.Fredrich Halm
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.John Ruskin
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
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.George Carlin
