Quotes about soul

"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   

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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   

"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   

"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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"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."

Bolen, Jean Shinoda on soul
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"The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love."

Carlyle, Thomas on soul   

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

Cohen, Leonard on soul   

"Secrecy is the soul of all great designs."

Colton, Charles Caleb on soul   

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

Eckhart, Meister on soul   

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

Einstein, Albert on soul   

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on soul   

"The soul's emphasis is always right."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on soul   

"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   

"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   

"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   

"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   

"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   

"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   

"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   

"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   

"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   

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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   

"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   

"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   

"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   

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall on soul   

"However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned."

Thoreau, Henry David on soul