The Soul Quotes

Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its activity and ardor.

Divine souls suffer violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano!

It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.

Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.

The sun is nice but it lights things up so much that you can't see very far... The night time is better. It stretches your soul to the stars.

Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.

Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.

The greatest books in Russian literature are satires. Gogol's Dead Souls, for example, is a very over-the-top satire about life in Russia. I think it's the thing we do best.

When the personality comes to serve the energy of the soul that is authentic empowerment.

As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.

The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.

Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

The Church offers the medicine of the divine mercy so that healed souls can grasp the truth that will liberate them in the fullest meaning of human freedom.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.

If we don't have souls then who am I talking to when I keep telling myself to be good?

The rice bowl is to me the most valid reason in the world for doing anything. A piece of one's soul to the multitudes in return for rice and wine does not seem to me a sacrilege.

When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the soul, the divine instrumentality for its higher utterance.

As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.

One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.

The soul, Advancing ever to the source of light And all perfection, lives, adores, and reigns In cloudless knowledge, purity, and bliss.

You cannot hide the soul.

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls.

If God is a reality, and the soul is a reality, and you are an immortal being, what are you doing with your Bible shut?

[He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work.

You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.

Each soul must accomplish its task, or it would not have been sent here.

Real soup is to the body what peace is to the soul.

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.

Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.

I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first Chicken Soup for the Soul book.

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.

It is upon each soul to recognize its limit.

Choose life over death, Niko, when a choice can be made that puts no soul in jeopardy.

She was by nature a sunny soul

Maturity is when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us.

My ultimate film role would be to play the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin.

Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls.

I love Barbra Streisand and Sade who've both had careers in soul and I want my music to have that timeless quality that isn't necessarily now.

Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We all have to stand for something, or our souls cease to breathe.

I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.

When we pray with our hearts and our souls I think we are being heard.

Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.

There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

I sing the progress of a deathless soul.

Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.