Soul Quotes

Emily dickinson - hope is the thing with feathers that perches in...
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickenson
Joan borysenko - some tension is necessary for the soul to grow,...
Thomas fulle - anger is one of the sinners of the soul....
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
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
Louise Erdrich
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
The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.
Shneur Zalman
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Kelle
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
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
William Hazlitt
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot
My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.
Aldous Huxley
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
Publilius Syrus
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe - - The open sesame to every soul.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
George Santayana
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
John Bunyan
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
Sallust
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom Robbins
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
Joseph Addison
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
G. K. Chesterton
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
James Joseph Sylveste
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers - By see only a wisp of smoke.
Vincent Van Gogh
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
George Carlin
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
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
Elie Wiesel
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
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
A fair woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatory to the purse, and a hell to the soul.
Elizabeth Grymeston
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
Albert Einstein
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
Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel persecution of todays society and become what they are seen as instead of who they really are. A person, just like everyone else.
Unknown
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
Anatol Rapoport
I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.
George W. Bush, Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13, 2004
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.
William Shakespeare