Soul Quotes
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.John Ruskin
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.Robert Louis Stevenson
A person without character is just as body without soul.Ranjan
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
Music is the soul of language.Max Heindel
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.Samuel Ullman
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
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.William James
What is Jordan that I should wash in it What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace.William Gurnall
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.Socrates
If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of.Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.Nora Roberts
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.Rebecca West
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.Plato
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.E. M. Forste
A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.Dwight Lyman Moody
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.Pindar, 518 - 438 B. C.
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.Virginia Woolf
The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want.Sigmund Freud
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, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.Fredrich Halm
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
Variety is the soul of pleasure.Aphra Behn
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.D. H. Lawrence
Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.Kahlil Gibran
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
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.
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.Sallust
And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.Henry Vaughn
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.John Fletcher, 1647
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.Gaston Bachelard
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Pablo Picasso
What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies.Aristotle
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
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.George Eliot
