Soul Quotes

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

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

Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

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

I will devote my body and soul to the service of the people and the nation.

This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack.

He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Who says soul has only one colour?

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.

No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it.

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.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

I will devote my body and soul to the service of the people and the nation.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.