Soul Quotes
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.Hazrat Inayat Khan
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.George Meredith
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
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
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.Socrates, In "Phaedo, " sct. 98, by Plato.
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.Joseph Stalin, Brainy Quote
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
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.D. H. Lawrence
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
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.Elie Wiesel
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
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
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
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway?David Merritt, a. k. a. THE RED SHARK
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.Confucius
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.Mother Teresa
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
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.Confucius
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
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
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.Gaston Bachelard
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
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.Pinda
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
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
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.W. H. Murray
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.Aesop
It is with narrow - Souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.Alexander Pope
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
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.William Ernest Henley, From the poem "Invictus".
Music is the soul of language.Max Heindel
