Soul Quotes

Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.

Plato

It is with narrow - Souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.

Alexander Pope

I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul - Stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.

Heywood

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo

Feeling passionate about something is like getting a peak at your soul smiling back at you.

Amanda Medinge

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Charles Kingsley

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

Socrates, In "Phaedo, " sct. 98, by Plato.

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun

Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Mille

I have lost the half of myself? a soul for which mine was made.

Voltaire

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

Plato, The Republic

Conversation is food for the soul.

Mexican Prove

They say dreams are the windows of the soul - - Take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.

Logan Pearsall Smith

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Michael Bridge

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe - Struck before his soul.

Kahlil Gibran

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hope is the thing with feathers - - That perches in the soul - - And sings the tune without words - - And never stops, at all.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.

Anatol Rapoport

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

James Joseph Sylveste

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.

Emily Dickenson

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you.

Kahlil Gibran

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Excellent wretch Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Mark Twain, inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

Henry David Thoreau

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

Confucius