Soul Quotes

Mortification from a self - Strength, carried on by ways of self - Invention, unto the end of a self - Righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.
John Owen
Plato - thinking is the talking of the soul with itself....
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
E. M. Cioran
Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.
Unknown
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Elie wiesel - there are victories of the soul and spirit....
Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
Sir Francis Bacon
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
Ambrose of milan - prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to...
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine.... How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adle
Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.
Antonio Gramsci
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
I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul - Stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.
Heywood
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato, The Republic
And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - To belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.
Gloria Vanderbilt
A person without character is just as body without soul.
Ranjan
Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.
Indian Prove
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
Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.
Joan Borysenko
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain, inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame
Each of us should do something every day That we do not want to do But we know we should do, To strengthen our backbone And put iron in our soul.
Henry Hitt Crane
Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.
Manton
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Jeseph Joubert
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. 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
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.
Clarence Darrow
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
E. H. Chapin
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
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