Soul Quotes

The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want.

Sigmund Freud

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

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo

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

It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine.... How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Aesop

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master - Gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

James Allen

Flowers feed the soul.

Mohammad

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.

Unknown

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

Victor Hugo

Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

Sir Francis Bacon

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - - A terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

George McGovern

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

Plato

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

Henry Van Dyke

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Mark Twain

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

Pythagorus

The eyes are the window of the soul.

English Prove

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Aphra Behn

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.

Amelia Earhart Putnam

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.

Napolean Hill

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

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Antonio Gramsci

Surfing is good for the soul, worries seems to drift away as you scan the horizon for the next wave.

Ed Daley

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

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

Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away.

Anon.

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

William Shakespeare

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Emily Dickinson

Each of us should do something every day That we do not want to do But we know we should do, To strengthen our backbone And put iron in our soul.

Henry Hitt Crane

Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.

Alfred Lord Tennyson