Soul Quotes

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

Victor Hugo

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Marcus Aurelius

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

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

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

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

Surfing is good for the soul, worries seems to drift away as you scan the horizon for the next wave.

Ed Daley

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Henry Ward Beeche

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

Marquis de Sade

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

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

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

Victor Hugo

Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.

Thomas Fulle

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

Feeling passionate about something is like getting a peak at your soul smiling back at you.

Amanda Medinge

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.

Soren Kierkegaard

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".

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

Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away.

Anon.

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

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

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Charles Scribner, Jr.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

Erich Fromm

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Will Durant

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

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Alice James

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.

Joseph Addison

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Edgar Allen Poe

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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

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