Soul Quotes
Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.Theodore Herman Albert Dreise
Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled.Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.Robert Louis Stevenson
Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.Manton
The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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 soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.Johannes Meister Eckhart
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
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit.Heinrich Heine
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.John Ruskin
It is amazing that our souls - - Our eternal essences, with all their hopes an dreams and visions of an eternal world - - Are contained within these temporal bodies.Marion Woodman
A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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 Confucian Analects
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)
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
If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of.Alfred Lord Tennyson
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 form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.Ingrid Bergman
Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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
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
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 need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Safeguard the health both of body and soul.Cleobulus
The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.Philo Judaeus
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.Martha Graham
The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.W. H. Murray
Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.Ambrose of Milan
We stare into the fire of life, the flame of the soul, Yet we stand, so far away, Basking in the eternal energy that flows from within it, We stand back, too scared to approach the flames.Unknown