Soul Quotes

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry van dyke - self is the only prison that can bind the soul....
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
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
Pindar, 518 - 438 b. c. - seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but...
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
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
Michael bridge - when our eyes see our hands doing the work of our...
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.
Joseph Addison
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Martha Graham
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
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
John Vance Cheney
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Aphra Behn
There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.
Ernest Hello
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
The will to do, the soul to dare.
Sir Walter Scott
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.
William S. Gilbert
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
Anne Frank
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
William James
Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivanada
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
Gaston Bachelard
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - - Trees, flowers, grass - - Grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Theresa
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
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
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers - By see only a wisp of smoke.
Vincent Van Gogh
The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
W. H. Murray
The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
Rona Barrett
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato, The Republic
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
Jules Verne, 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 34
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
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