The Soul Quotes
Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.
I've played the clarinet since I was a kid. I love to sing, but I'm not much of a singer. Let's say that when it comes to vocalizing, I have the soul of Billy Bigelow but the voice of Jigger Cragan.
I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might become.
No outsourcing the "soul" of the company - let's all agree to that. But most companies are more body than soul.
Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.
Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate.
The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.
The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul.
A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest ... because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.
Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is impermanent: changing, changing, changing.
One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.
As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.
Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.
The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.
Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.
Satan can only attack us from the outside in. He may work through the lust and sensations of the body or through the mind and emotion of the soul, for those two belong to the outward man.
That is the heart and soul of the American dream, homeownership, the idea of being able to buy a house and start to build your family.
The 'good food' is...the food of the Word of God, for as food builds up the tissues of the body, repairs waste, and preserves us in health, so the Word of God is the complete food of the soul.
Can Christ be in thou heart and thou not know it? Can one king be dethroned and another crowned in thy soul and thou hear no scuffle?
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.
People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.
Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.
