Soul Quotes
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.John Ruskin
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.Bette Davis
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.George Santayana
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.Muhammad Ali
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.John Ruskin
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!Theophile Gautie
Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.Akhenaton
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.Maya Angelou
Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.Jean Jacques Rousseau
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
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.Booker T. Washington
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen.The Talmud
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.Ambrose of Milan
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
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.Victor Hugo
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.Jacques Prvert
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.
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.Joseph Addison
If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.Frederick Douglas
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
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.D. H. Lawrence
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Berthald Auerbach
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.Albert Einstein
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a 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
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.Mark Twain
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.Gaston Bachelard
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - - Trees, flowers, grass - - Grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... we need silence to be able to touch souls.Mother Theresa
I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.George W. Bush, Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
The best richness is the richness of the soul.Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.E. H. Chapin