Soul Quotes

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
E. H. Chapin
Alfred tennyson - words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal...
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
Publilius syrus - speech is a mirror of the soul as a man speaks,...
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
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
Jules Verne, 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 34
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
Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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
Charles buxton - experience shows that success is due less to...
Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul - Stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.
Heywood
What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.
Josh Billings
The best richness is the richness of the soul.
Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.
Helen Luke
If you are losing your leisure, look out You are losing your soul.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.
Joseph Brodsky
What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.
Joseph Addison
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.
Fredrich Halm
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William E. Channing
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
Ingrid Bergman
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
Socrates
Feeling passionate about something is like getting a peak at your soul smiling back at you.
Amanda Medinge
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
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.
Hannah Whitall Smith
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat 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
Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul.
John Keats