The Soul Quotes

But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.

Although I had lived a far from perfect life, my heart and soul belonged to God, country, and family long before the Navy got hold of me.

Even when there is no longer hope for the body, there is always hope for the soul.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.

As the soul, itself invisible, is seen by what it does through the body.

What for others is style, for me is soul.

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.

We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.

Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!

Encouragement is oxygen for the soul

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

Repartee is the soul of conversation.

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

Death only this mysterious truth unfolds, The mighty soul how small a body holds.

I have a soul that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge enough for more.

That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.

That soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.

With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!

When we perfect 3-D copiers and they reproduce tissue, we'll have a million Marilyns walking around with no souls.

O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed.

Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new?

The social states of human kinds Are made by multitudes of minds, And after multitudes of years A little human growth appears Worth having, even to the soul Who sees most plain it's not the whole.

The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.

So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love.

Leanness of body and soul may go together.

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.

The soul was never put in the body to stand still.

I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.

When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.

Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it.

The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism.

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite.

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.

T is the Divinity that stirs within us.

Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.