Soul Quotes

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

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

A person without character is just as body without soul.

Ranjan

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.

William James

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

Henry Van Dyke

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Plato, The Republic

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun

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)

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Alice James

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

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

The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.

Phillips Brooks

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 soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Alain

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen.

The Talmud

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

Charles De Gaulle

Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.

Amelia Earhart Putnam

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.

Virginia Woolf

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.

Marquis de Sade

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Emily Dickinson

Excellent wretch Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

E. M. Cioran

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

John Owen