Souls Quotes

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.

Chess is not for timid souls.

If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls.

One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.

I think it's just important to not judge people based on their physicality because it's really about personality and people's hearts and souls. That's what drew me to Audrey Hepburn who is kind of like my icon.

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.