The Soul Quotes

I know that my companions from the moment of birth were heaven's choicest souls. I grew side by side with them, in fact all the education and inspiration came over them.

Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.

Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.

The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.

All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.

The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.

Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.

Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.

O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?

I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

The soul's joy lies in doing.

Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.

Soul music is timeless.

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

We are spirits clad in veils.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.

War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.

Yoga means addition - addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.

...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.

The soul is the weariest part of the body.

My body is precious and not separate from my soul.

Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.

He was beyond gorgeous. But Eastlake High was full of pretty people who acted like total freaks. I blame the local water supply. Which was why I drank bottled water.

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Saturday morning, you knew what was cool by what was on 'Soul Train.'

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.