Soul Quotes
As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start
Brevity is the soul of wit.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.John Ruskin
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.Emily Dickinson
Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.Hannah Whitall Smith
If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world.Chinese Prove
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.Woody Allen
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.Joseph Addison
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.Edgar Allen Poe
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.William E. Channing
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
God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.Kahlil Gibran
Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.Henry David Thoreau
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.Joseph Addison
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.Oliver Wendell Holmes
All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river... In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re - Visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.Virgil
Nay, tempt me not to love again There was a time when love was sweet Dear Nea had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet But oh this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one Would I endure such pangs again.Sir Thomas More
Safeguard the health both of body and soul.Cleobulus
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Pablo Picasso
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
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.Charles De Gaulle
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.Soren Kierkegaard
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
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.William Shakespeare
Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel persecution of todays society and become what they are seen as instead of who they really are. A person, just like everyone else.Unknown
The best richness is the richness of the soul.Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
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
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.Lou Dorfsman
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.Plato, The Republic
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.Joseph Addison
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
