Soul Quotes

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

To the timid soul, nothing is possible.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

I grew up listening to old soul.

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.

I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

I'm not on Twitter, nor Facebook, or LinkedIn, or any of these systems, because they suck in your soul and they will not let you go. Try to get out of any of them, and you will see. They are just like some religions where apostasy is punished by death.

We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio.

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.

My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inherited. And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn.

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.

'The Chicken Soup for the Soul' books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. The first book contains all of the stories that I used in my seminars to illustrate the points that I wanted to make.

A lot of people don't know the first time I was ever on national television I was a 'Soul Train' dancer.

People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior.

Saturday morning, you knew what was cool by what was on 'Soul Train.'

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

A home without books is a body without soul.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.