Soul Quotes
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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
Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God.W. E. Orchard
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.Psalm 42, Book II, Holy Bible
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
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.Carl Jung
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
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.Swami Sivanada
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.Carl Gustav Jung
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.Mark Twain
No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well - - Parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.John Bunyan
Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have lost the half of myself? a soul for which mine was made.Voltaire
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
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.E. M. Forste
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.Charles Scribner, Jr.
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul.Smiley Blanton
The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.W. H. Murray
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick - Sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.John Keats
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
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.Marquis de Sade
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.Robert Louis Stevenson
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.Theodore Herman Albert Dreise
Mortification from a self - Strength, carried on by ways of self - Invention, unto the end of a self - Righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.John Owen
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
I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.Douglas MacArthu
Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.Dax Ward
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.Rebecca West
The self - Controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.Bhagavad Gita
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
A room without books is like a body without a soul.G. K. Chesterton
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1. That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
