Soul Quotes
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul.Smiley Blanton
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.John Ruskin
Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.Rabbi Harold Kushne
I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul - Stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.Heywood
Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.Amelia Earhart Putnam
Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.John Ray
What is Jordan that I should wash in it What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace.William Gurnall
Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.Joan Borysenko
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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
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
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.David Pratt
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.Samuel Ullman
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
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.D. H. Lawrence
A fair woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatory to the purse, and a hell to the soul.Elizabeth Grymeston
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
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.Akhenaton
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.Denis Diderot
Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.Alfred Lord Tennyson
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.Frederick William Fabe
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
It is amazing that our souls - - Our eternal essences, with all their hopes an dreams and visions of an eternal world - - Are contained within these temporal bodies.Marion Woodman
Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away.Anon.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.Paxton Hood
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.Joseph Addison
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.Marquis de Sade
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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
Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved - - It is to represent Christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in Christ, so the world must behold Christ in us. As Christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent Christ before the world.Cornelius Stam
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine.... How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex...Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled.Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.Thomas Jefferson
