Soul Quotes

Henry wadsworth longfellow - tell me not, in mournful numbers, life is but an...
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
Martha graham - dance is the hidden language of the soul of the...
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
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
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
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The eyes are the window of the soul.
English Prove
Fredrich halm - two souls with but a single thought, two hearts...
Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe a dungeon.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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
I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul - Stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.
Heywood
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Emily Dickinson
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
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adle
Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
George Carlin
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
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
Hope is the thing with feathers - - That perches in the soul - - And sings the tune without words - - And never stops, at all.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Kelle
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
Frederick Douglas
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
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Gustav Jung
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
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
A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul.
Eric Pio
Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
George Meredith
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
Albert Einstein
Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13
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
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe - Struck before his soul.
Kahlil Gibran
Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
Homer, The Iliad
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
Socrates
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