Soul Quotes

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711
Antonio gramsci - if you think about it seriously, all the...
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
Victor Hugo
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 enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana
Albert einstein - it is only to the individual that a soul is given....
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
Henrik Ibsen, Norweigen Playwright
Pride, envy, avarice - - These are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man.
Alighieri Dante
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
Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
Publilius Syrus
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - - A terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
George McGovern
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
Woody Allen
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
Polish prove - conscience is the voice of the soul....
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
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickenson
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
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthald Auerbach
Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved - - It is to represent Christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in Christ, so the world must behold Christ in us. As Christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent Christ before the world.
Cornelius Stam
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
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Feeling passionate about something is like getting a peak at your soul smiling back at you.
Amanda Medinge
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - And the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Mille
Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday living.
Pablo Picasso
Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.
John Fletcher, 1647
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
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.
Lou Dorfsman
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
Joseph Stalin, Brainy Quote
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivanada