Soul Quotes

Homer, the iliad - the fates have given mankind a patient soul....
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Gustav Jung
Pablo picasso - art washes away from the soul, the dust of...
A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul.
Eric Pio
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Tennyson
Henry van dyke - self is the only prison that can bind the soul....
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
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
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
E. M. Cioran
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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
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
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
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.
Napolean Hill
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul.
John Keats
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
The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.
Alain
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master - Gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
James Allen
Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
John Donne
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
The soul of this man is in his clothes.
William Shakespeare
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.
Theodore Herman Albert Dreise
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley
Just being happy helps other souls along Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong And your own sky will lighten, If other skies you brighten, by just being happy with a heart full of song.
Ripley D. Saunders
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Frederick William Fabe
No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well - - Parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Horace Mann