Soul Quotes
Character cannot 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
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?Bible, Mark 8: 36
Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.Hannah Whitall Smith
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.Constance Naden
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.J. R. R. Tolkien
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.John Ruskin
I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and love flooded my soul.Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I sat down and wept
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.Albert Einstein
Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.Ecclesiastes
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.?Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.Erich Fromm
God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.Kahlil Gibran
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.Paxton Hood
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.William S. Gilbert
Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved - - It is to represent Christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in Christ, so the world must behold Christ in us. As Christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent Christ before the world.Cornelius Stam
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
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.Plato
Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.Akhenaton
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.Emily Dickinson
Safeguard the health both of body and soul.Cleobulus
We stare into the fire of life, the flame of the soul, Yet we stand, so far away, Basking in the eternal energy that flows from within it, We stand back, too scared to approach the flames.Unknown
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
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.Plato
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.Emily Dickinson
Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.Rabbi Harold Kushne
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.George Bancroft
Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.Manton
All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river... In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re - Visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.Virgil
A fair woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatory to the purse, and a hell to the soul.Elizabeth Grymeston
The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.Logan Pearsall Smith
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.Ecclesiastes
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
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
