Soul Quotes

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

To them that ask, where have you seen the gods, or how do you know for certain there are gods, that you are so devout in their worship I answer Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.

Indian Prove

The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.

Plato

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

George Santayana

The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self there remains nothing more for him to accomplish.

Bhagavad Gita

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

Seneca

Brevity is the soul of wit.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2

Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

Each of us should do something every day That we do not want to do But we know we should do, To strengthen our backbone And put iron in our soul.

Henry Hitt Crane

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - To belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

Gloria Vanderbilt

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Joseph Addison

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Saint Teresa of Avila

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Emma Goldman

The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.

Phillips Brooks

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

Sallust

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

Louise Erdrich

Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.

Akhenaton

Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.

Hannah Whitall Smith

I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.

George W. Bush, Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13, 2004

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk - Handsome, twentytwoyearold.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Alice James

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen.

The Talmud

Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.

Plato

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

William James

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Kelle

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

George Bancroft

If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

Pythagorus

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Frederick Douglas