Soul Quotes
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - It is a palliative rather than a remedy.Peter De Vries
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.Carl Gustav Jung
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.Jim Morrison
Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled.Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
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
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.Ambrose of Milan
When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.Woody Allen
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
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
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.Charles Kingsley
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?William Shakespeare, Richard III, V. iii
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
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
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul.John Keats
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
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.Henry David Thoreau, Simplify simplify
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
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
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.Mark Twain
Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.Unknown
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.Victor Hugo
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.Mother Theresa
No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk - Handsome, twentytwoyearold.Vladimir Mayakovsky
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.Douglas MacArthu
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
Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.Dax Ward
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.Henry Van Dyke
A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all.Emily Dickinson
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.Lou Dorfsman
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.E. M. Cioran
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
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.Phillips Brooks
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.Henry Ward Beeche
