The Soul Quotes
He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience.
The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice.
We ask for forgiveness. And we forgive others who ask us. In that way we can experience healing, healing in our souls.
The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image— And this is the silence of wisdom.
Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.
There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.
Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.
Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.
The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.
It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.
Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.
High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning, Albeit the sun shone bright; Unto my soul it spoke, in voice of warning, "Remember Night!"
Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.
Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.
And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.
There are those who would love each other if once they were to speak to each other; when they spoke they would discover their souls were separated by phantoms and delusions
No one can rob us of our own soul, and our spirit is already one with the eternal goodness.
Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let us take a little vacation from this word.
Your soul craves truth, beauty, wonder, love. Your soul craves to dream, to imagine, and even simply to understand. Your soul craves to connect, to commune, to create.
The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.
The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.
It used to be enough just to make a fairly decent product and market it. Not anymore. In the '90s, you've got to have a Corporate Soul.
When an audience is laughing, that's opening their souls somehow, and when you have an audience with an open soul, it's much better to hit them with a knife.
To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.
And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great tune to which the planets roll!
Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.
It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.
Afflictions clarify the soul; And like hard masters, give more hard directions, Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections.
If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.
The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.
Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.
If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
Through incarnations, some beings do go down. That is to say, they forget. The soul falls into an eclipse of itself and there is a downward progression for a time.
If we get above the individualized soul's journey, you will see that we are all one. We are all one light. In that sense, we are all enlightened.
Reincarnation is the evolution of spirit through matter. Over thousands and millions of lifetimes, the soul evolves. It comes into the light. The growth is slow.
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.
I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself.
I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.