Soul Quotes
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.E. M. Cioran
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
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.Seneca
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.Dorothy Parke
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
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.Swami Sivanada
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.William Ernest Henley, From the poem "Invictus".
What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul?Jesus Christ, Matthew 16: 26
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.Joseph Brodsky
And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
A person without character is just as body without soul.Ranjan
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.Sallust
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.Plato, The Republic
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Pablo Picasso
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.E. H. Chapin
I have lost the half of myself? a soul for which mine was made.Voltaire
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
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
A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.Virginia Woolf
Music is the soul of language.Max Heindel
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.George Eliot
Imagination is the eye of the soul.Jeseph Joubert
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
Surfing is good for the soul, worries seems to drift away as you scan the horizon for the next wave.Ed Daley
In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.Kahlil Gibran
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.Tom Robbins
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!Jules Verne, 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 34
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.Charles De Gaulle
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.George Eliot
Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.John Ray
Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.Samuel Ullman
