Soul Quotes

Oscar wilde - ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches...
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Jesus christ, matthew 16: 26 - what does it profit a man if he gains the whole...
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self - Distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.
Author Unknown
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.
Plato
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
E. H. Chapin
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
Dan kelly - the effects of kindness are not always seen...
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you.
Kahlil Gibran
A home without books is a body without soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.
Akhenaton
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
Confucius
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
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.
Clarence Darrow
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.
Pinda
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
Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday living.
Pablo Picasso
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
John Donne
A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul.
Eric Pio
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
Socrates
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
Albert Einstein
Just being happy helps other souls along Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong And your own sky will lighten, If other skies you brighten, by just being happy with a heart full of song.
Ripley D. Saunders
Music is the vernacular of the human soul.
Geoffrey Latham
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
The soul of this man is in his clothes.
William Shakespeare
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington
The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.
Phillips Brooks
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master - Gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
James Allen
Conversation is food for the soul.
Mexican Prove
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
G. K. Chesterton
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain, inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allen Poe
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.
Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
Anne Frank
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa