The Soul Quotes

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

For every man, peace of soul is precious.

Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people

..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.

True love wasn't found in good hair or the right clothes, make-up or shoes. True love was found in the soul - as was wisdom and compassion

The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.

The Yoga of action, leading to union with the soul is fiery aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara.

Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person.

Emotions are the color of the soul.

In order to dominate the soul you must also learn to dominate the body. And in order to dominate the body you cannot fear pain.

The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.

to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292

It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

Christianity is God's marriage proposal to the soul.

Synchronicity is an inexplicable and profoundly meaningful coincidence that stirs the soul and offers a glimpse of one's destiny.

Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.

How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!

But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.

For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul

No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul

From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.

Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.

We have been sold a lifestyle, when what our soul desired was life.

The soul has neither beginning nor end [They] come into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of their previous lives

Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.

Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul.

I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."

By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.

The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand.

Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.

for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

Saltwater heals, healing referring to its various forms; tears, cleanses and heals the soul; sweat, cleanses through labor; the ocean, heals in all its forms.

We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self.