The Soul Quotes
Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.
There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.
To find rest unto our souls includes peace of mind and heart, which is the result of learning and following the doctrine of Christ.
Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.
Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
Woe is me! The winged words on which my soul would pierce Into the heights of love's rare universe, Are chains of lead around its flight of fire-- I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.
You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.
Many Americans knew their lives and their souls were being struggled for, and they fought for it. And I felt I should carry on.
It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?
Unlike later Neo-Platonists, Plotinus says that our souls are always connected to the universal intellect and that we never really fall away.
We do have intellects and Plotinus controversially thought that even though we might not be aware of it, our souls are always connected to the intellect. They never fully descend as he would put it.
In fact Plotinus thought not only that soul in general is eternal so that you always have soul, but he thought that each person's soul is eternal.
Plotinus thought that the entire world has a single soul. He also thought that each animal and plant and of course human, has an individual soul.
Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul.
This is in a way the most important thing about soul is that it's a kind of principle which mediates between the universal intellect and the material world.
No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.
A stellar, fully-realized collection of stories... grounded, wonderfully, in the river valleys of western Maine. You come away not only understanding a place but the soul of its people.
We don't want emotion handed to us - that's not emotion. You have to build and come from the reader's soul.
People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.
Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds.
Let those who think the soul is shallow rail, They must be warned before they dare to leap They'll plunge into the twilight depths where sweep In ceaseless thirst great teeth too swift to fail.
Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most.
Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.
Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.
He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.
If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.
The Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please; And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes.
Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.
The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe.
The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.
Remembrance saves a people's soul from whatever or whoever would attempt to dominate it or use it for their interests.
In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.