Soul Quotes

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

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

I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.

Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn't come from your spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.