Soul Quotes

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
Swami sivanada - put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to...
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
Seneca
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - - Trees, flowers, grass - - Grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Theresa
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
Homer, the iliad - the fates have given mankind a patient soul....
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
Marquis de Sade
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
Virgil - all these souls, after they have passed away a...
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
The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
Rona Barrett
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
It is with narrow - Souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
Alexander Pope
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
Joseph Stalin, Brainy Quote
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.
Indian Prove
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
For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest.
Lord Byron
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison
A home without books is a body without soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
Socrates
Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau
They say dreams are the windows of the soul - - Take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.
Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
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
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland
If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.
Alain
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
Theophile Gautie
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
E. H. Chapin
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
John Vance Cheney
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
Henrik Ibsen, Norweigen Playwright
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
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William James
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature (1841)
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
Socrates, In "Phaedo, " sct. 98, by Plato.
Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.
Joan Borysenko
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
Safeguard the health both of body and soul.
Cleobulus
An understanding heart is everything in 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 Jung