Soul Quotes

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.

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.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

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

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul, a guy who is destined for something a lot larger than he ever expected.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.