Quotes about soul




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"The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little."

Alger, William R. on soul
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"The only substance properly so called is the soul."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on soul    Share

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"The soul never thinks without a picture."

Aristotle on soul
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"We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one."

Aristotle on soul    Share

"Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart."

Augustine, St. on soul    Share

"To live happily is an inward power of the soul."

Aurelius, Marcus on soul
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"What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul"

Bible on soul
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"The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love."

Carlyle, Thomas on soul    Share

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

Cohen, Leonard on soul    Share

"Secrecy is the soul of all great designs."

Colton, Charles Caleb on soul    Share

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

Eckhart, Meister on soul    Share

"It is only to the individual that a soul is given."

Einstein, Albert on soul    Share

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on soul    Share

"The soul's emphasis is always right."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on soul    Share

"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."

Epictetus on soul    Share

"Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value."

Gandhi, Mahatma on soul    Share

"Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one."

Halm, Fredrich on soul
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"It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."

Henley, William Ernest on soul
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"The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on."

Holland, Josiah Gilbert on soul
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"The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on soul    Share

"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."

Irving, Washington on soul    Share

"If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you deny your appetite for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding what is certain in them."

John of the Cross, St. on soul    Share

"The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly."

John of the Cross, St. on soul    Share

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

La Fontaine, Jean De on soul
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"As it is not proper to cure the eyes without the head, nor the head without the body, so neither is it proper to cure the body without the soul."

Loomis on soul    Share

"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."

Macarthur, Douglas on soul
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"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul."

Macarthur, Douglas on soul    Share

"The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love."

Magdenburg, Mechthild of on soul
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"How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?"

Masters, Edgar Lee on soul    Share

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"Thou are never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which he permits for the purifications and beautifying of thy soul."

Molinos on soul    Share

"The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves."

Proverb on soul
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"A little body often harbors a great soul."

Proverb on soul
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"O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul."

Renan, Joseph Ernst on soul
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"To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead."

Russell, Bertrand on soul    Share

"Great souls endure in silence."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on soul
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"What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on soul    Share

"We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies."

Shaw, George Bernard on soul    Share

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"Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on soul    Share

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