Soul Quotes

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
Kahlil gibran - what difference is there between us, save a...
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
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
When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
Woody Allen
Charles scribner, jr. - language is the soul of intellect, and reading is...
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
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Lord byron - for the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul...
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
Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.
Amelia Earhart Putnam
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
We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.
Lester Bowles Pearson
Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God.
W. E. Orchard
Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington
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
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
D. H. Lawrence
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul.
Smiley Blanton
All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
George Santayana
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
Martha Graham
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
Nora Roberts
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Kelle
The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.
Alexandra Stoddard, Gracious Living in a New World
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
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
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick - Sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.
John Keats
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Aphra Behn
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
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.
Indian Prove
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
Confucius
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi