Soul Quotes
The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit.Heinrich Heine
Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.Kahlil Gibran
Heaven - Born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.Michelangelo Buonarroti
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.
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
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.Seneca
The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul.Smiley Blanton
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
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury.Edwin Hubbel Chapin
They say dreams are the windows of the soul - - Take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
If you are losing your leisure, look out You are losing your soul.Logan Pearsall Smith
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.Albert Einstein
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
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.Dorothy Parke
Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.Rabbi Harold Kushne
When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.Woody Allen
The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self there remains nothing more for him to accomplish.Bhagavad Gita
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.Henry Ward Beeche
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
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.Marcus Tullius Cicero
The self - Controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.Bhagavad Gita
A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul.Eric Pio
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.E. M. Forste
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.Plato
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
Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.Manton
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.Joseph Brodsky
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
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.Mother Theresa
Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.Akhenaton
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!Theophile Gautie
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
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.Napolean Hill
The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.W. H. Murray
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray