Soul Quotes
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.Michael Bridge
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
Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.Charles Buxton
The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want.Sigmund Freud
You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.Victor Hugo
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.John Ruskin
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
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.Victor Hugo
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
We stare into the fire of life, the flame of the soul, Yet we stand, so far away, Basking in the eternal energy that flows from within it, We stand back, too scared to approach the flames.Unknown
My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger.Aldous Huxley
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".
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.Dorothy Parke
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self - Distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.Author Unknown
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
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.Pinda
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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
Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.Thomas Fulle
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)
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.Mother Teresa
A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.Dwight Lyman Moody
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
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
Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.Sir Francis Bacon
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.John Bunyan
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
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.
The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.Alexandra Stoddard, Gracious Living in a New World
What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul?Jesus Christ, Matthew 16: 26
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.Michael Bridge
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
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
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.Louise Erdrich
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.William Hazlitt
