Soul Quotes

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

A fair woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatory to the purse, and a hell to the soul.

Elizabeth Grymeston

Nay, tempt me not to love again There was a time when love was sweet Dear Nea had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet But oh this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one Would I endure such pangs again.

Sir Thomas More

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Bible, Mark 8: 36

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

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

Henrik Ibsen, Norweigen Playwright

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

If you are losing your leisure, look out You are losing your soul.

Logan Pearsall Smith

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.

Josh Billings

Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.

Helen Luke

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.

Paxton Hood

Mortification from a self - Strength, carried on by ways of self - Invention, unto the end of a self - Righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.

John Owen

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

G. K. Chesterton

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

Plato

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

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

Joseph Addison

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

Sallust

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

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

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

Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

Unknown

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Flowers feed the soul.

Mohammad

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Frederick Douglas

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890

Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Pamela Vaull Sta

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat 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, The Lonely Life, 1962

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Aesop

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Joseph Stalin, Brainy Quote

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

George Bancroft

Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

Erich Fromm

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.

Bertrand Russell

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Maya Angelou

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

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

Ambrose of Milan