Soul Quotes
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.Amelia Earhart
I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After - Life spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered I Myself am Heaven and Hell.Omar Khayym
Safeguard the health both of body and soul.Cleobulus
Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God.W. E. Orchard
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?Bible, Mark 8: 36
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.Pamela Vaull Sta
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
Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all.Emily Dickinson
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
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
An understanding heart is everything in 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 Jung
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
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
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.
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.Marcus Aurelius
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.Will Durant
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.Judy Garland
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".
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
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.William James
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.Denis Diderot
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.Emma Goldman
For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest.Lord Byron
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master - Gardener of his soul, the director of his life.James Allen
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.Mary Shelley
Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.Alfred Lord Tennyson
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine.... How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex...Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.George Santayana
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.Emily Dickinson
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
