Soul Quotes

Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

Your face is my heart Sassenach, and the love of you is my soul

Some people feel love in their hearts, Julie. Some of us feel it all way into our souls. We're the ones who can't forget.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another person, not with the mind, not even with the heart.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

I'm not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul. I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

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

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

We are a thick skinned people with emtpy souls. We spend our days playing dice, chess, or sleeping - and we say we are the best people that ever came to mankind?

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

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.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

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

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

Being filled with the Spirit is simply this - having my whole nature yielded to His power. When the whole soul is yielded to the Holy Spirit, God Himself will fill it.

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul."

The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

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

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.

The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?

I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.

He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.

I'm going to tell you the most important secret of human life. The most critical need of the human soul is to be kind.

If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further yet, and what you have before you, laid bare, is the soul.

The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously to every word he hears from the people he meets; thus, every step he takes presents a problem, a task, for his thoughts and feelings. He is alert and sensitive, he is experienced, his soul has been burned

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.

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.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card"¦and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.

The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another...

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

An authentically powered person lives in love. Love is the energy of the soul. Love is what heals the personality. There is nothing that cannot be healed by love. There is nothing but love.

You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

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

Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.

You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.

I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.

God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.

It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.

The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is.

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams ... that is being naked.

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small: Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my life, my all.

Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates—hence the deadly frost—the free power of the mind—the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more—the person is alone, like a baleful power—as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually—and in accordance with his own principle he is—misanthropic and misotheos.

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

my love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out

You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output - how much you produce - not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.

Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

When the child was a child, it didn't know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

I am the soul in limbo.

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted — Nevermore!

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

Doing things the way you see it, going by your own heart and soul, that is pure artistic integrity. Whether the hair is six or sixty inches long, the eyes have make-up or not, the riffs are in 'E' or 'F' sharp, the amps are Marshall or not, all those things don't matter if you are doing it for the right reason, which to me means doing it for yourself!!

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not only his safety and well-being but his sanity, his innermost soul, then retreat is not a sign of weakness but the most prudent course.

Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.

Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.

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.

O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

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

If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.

She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.

More than a shadow and less than a soul.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

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

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.

She was by nature a sunny soul

The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, I FANCY YOU!

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

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

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

The fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul, we couldn't use it, Mister.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

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

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

Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.

When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.

Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.

The tongue may be an unruly member— But silence poisons the soul.

When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself; you become what others force you to be. You lose your wisdom and your soul.

How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.

A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power and your soul power. Let us ever keep in mind that life is largely what we make it.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Heaven is always and forever around us and no soul remembered is ever really gone.

the colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

I sang 'A Closer Walk with Thee' along with blues singer Brownie McGhee, ... Then there was a show where Carol Houston, an actress on 'Matlock' sang 'It Is Well With My Soul' accompanied by a choir. Boy, that was powerful.

I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

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.

The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.

Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.

To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not forget the mountaineers who have not returned from the summits.

Wherever the Legionary’s hand and soul show up, a garden appears.

So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood.

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.

one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain them, since we may if we wish.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

Go ahead and cry, Andy. Don't be afraid of those tears. Sometimes they help to wash the soul clean.

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul.

For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

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

Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

Making art in America is about saving one's soul.

You are the God-being that is here to create life, to breathe soul into your body, to walk this world as your own source of power, love, worth and life.

A mage's soul is forged in the crucible of the magic

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another.

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.

As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.

Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.

And if the soul Is to know itself It is into a soul That it must look: The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.

I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know, and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on.

Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they'll see something from your heart and soul, and as a result will communicate your feeling and thought much better.

That's the sacred intent of life, of God—to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have paid for it with their humanity and their immortal souls.

To love and live beloved is the soul's paradise.

My music is evidence of my soul's will to live.

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul. You've got to run like an antelope, out of control.

Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind...And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again...Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory Forgiving sets you free.

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.

Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child shares traits and gifts.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

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.

O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

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

Every single soul is a poem.

O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.

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

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

We worship"¦the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the half-world, and perhaps worlds beyond, than we can grasp. We always knew that. We can't even stop children from dying, how would we presume to understand the truth of things? Behind things? Does the presence of one power deny another? [p. 176]

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

Faith is the soul's adventure.

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.

To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is welcome to the wealth that lies within my soul.

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

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.

Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

In reality, there are no enemies; we're all souls in growth, waking up

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. -Thomas More.

I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

A little honest swearin' wipeth away anger and bringeth peace to the soul.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

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

Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?

The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.

It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.

Chess is not for timid souls.

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul

Somewhere there must one Made for this soul, to move it.

To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.

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

Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

And there will be a time, not for long, a month is enough, or a week, when every single person will be able to completely fulfill what they were meant to be—everything their bodies and souls have offered them, not what other people have dumped on them.

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.

Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Sweet like candy to my soul ~~ Sweet you rock and sweet you roll ~~ Lost for you I’m so lost for you

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

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

Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else. Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things. Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.

Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.

He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs it, that at last He may live and work in us and through us and reign alone as king. Happy the soul who refuses nothing to love, but places everything at His disposal, for only thus may all our works be done more and more in God.

Fear betrays unworthy souls.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves

Nothing’s boring if it’s in your soul…

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?

What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?

May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.

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

In this life, y'ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They're challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there're divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them.

C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls; the bridge that links the creature to the creator

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed centre.

The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned...another lesson learned

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul

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

Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.

We have killed our souls with comfort instead of seeking fulfillment and achievement.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

...like the 75 billion souls who lived before him, each and every one a treasure, he, too, will die.

The soul's bliss and suffering are bound together.

Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.

Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be.

Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge....

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel— Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

I don't know why it is, but I just love soul music and all that old country stuff. I guess somehow my heart mixed them both together as I made my albums.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

I can heal the scars on your body, but I can’t heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn to live with them. You have to choose to live beyond them

I've learned of life this bitter truth Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose, But rather, Build within thy own soul Fortresses!

The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before!

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.

The soul that feeds on books alone — I count that soul exceeding small That lives alone by book and creed, — A soul that has not learned to read.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.

The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul.

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

Your face makes my soul want to eat chocolate pudding!

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Tennis has given me soul.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.

My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play

Through our soul is our contact with heaven.

Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.

In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. It is death which is m

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound than any that underlies our somewhat enfeebled ideas of universal benevolence and the determined progress of the race.

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart....

Music is the vernacular of the human soul

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics.

Forget the past and live in the present hour. Now is the time to work, the time to fill The soul with noblest thoughts, the time to will.

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul - satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

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

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.

My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.

The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death.

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.

Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.

Talk about meeting your soul mate ... I truly feel I have been given that gift. And believe me, I wasn't some lightweight package. I'm, like, the package that didn't just come with luggage - I had trunks.

Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding, the invisible in the visible.

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.

A true friend is one soul divided into two people.

I don't think I do have a soul.

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.

The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

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

Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.

Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

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

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air

The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.

And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.

Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion

My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring.

This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes, And steer to Paradise.

The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,—this makes life worth living.

The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.