Soul Quotes

‘Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.’ – Aristotle

‘I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.’ – Vincent Van Gogh

‘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.’ – Plato

‘The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.’ – Audrey Hepburn

‘Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.’ – Saint Augustine

‘Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.’ – Helen Keller

‘The Soul is the voice of the body’s interests.’ – George Santayana

‘Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.’ – Swami Sivananda

‘Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.’ – Berthold Auerbach

‘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.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘Imagination is the eye of the soul.’ – Joseph Joubert

‘Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.’ – Martin Luther

‘Beauty awakens the soul to act.’ – Dante Alighieri

‘Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.’ – Bob Marley

‘To have another language is to possess a second soul.’ – Charlemagne

‘Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.’ – Emily Dickinson

‘What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.’ – Ray Charles

‘The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘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.’ – John Muir

‘Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.’ – Rumi

‘For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?’ – Jesus Christ

‘Until one has loved an animal a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.’ – Anatole France

‘A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.’ – Minna Antrim

‘There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.’ – Carl Jung

‘Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.’ – Karl Marx

‘Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.’ – George Washington

‘Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.’ – Walt Whitman

‘Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.’ – Stella Adler

‘Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.’ – Michael Jackson

‘Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.’ – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

‘You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.’ – Ferdinand Foch

‘To live happily is an inward power of the soul.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.’ – Judy Garland

‘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.’ – Arnold Palmer

‘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.’ – Muhammad Ali

‘Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.’ – Edgar Allan Poe

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

‘Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.’ – Democritus

‘A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.’ – Booker T. Washington

‘Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.’ – Fyodor Dostoevsky

‘Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.’ – John Steinbeck

‘What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.’ – Kurt Cobain

‘There’s nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.’ – Mickey Hart

‘Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.’ – Napoleon Hill

‘Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.’ – Mahalia Jackson

‘The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.’ – Alfred Austin

‘Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.’ – Wassily Kandinsky

‘Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.’ – Mark Twain

‘You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.’ – Swami Vivekananda

‘Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.’ – Eleonora Duse

‘The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?” – Sigmund Freud

‘To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.’ – Confucius

‘The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.’ – Johann Sebastian Bach

‘I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.’ – Jim Morrison

‘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.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.’ – Charles Bukowski

‘History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.’ – John Dalberg-Acton

‘Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.’ – Will Durant

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

‘The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.’ – Omar Khayyam

‘Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.’ – Martha Graham

‘There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.’ – Clint Eastwood

‘Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it’s even more than that – Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody – or your soul.’ – Ann Voskamp

‘You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.’ – Epictetus

‘Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.’ – Victor Hugo

‘The soul that is within me no man can degrade.’ – Frederick Douglass

‘If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.’ – James Herriot

‘Brevity is the soul of wit.’ – William Shakespeare

‘The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.’ – Harriet Ann Jacobs

‘After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.’ – William R. Alger

‘The human body is the best picture of the human soul.’ – Ludwig Wittgenstein

‘Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.’ – Samuel Ullman

‘Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.’ – Nnamdi Azikiwe

‘Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.’ – Dorothy Day

‘I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.’ – Catherine the Great

‘Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.’ – Epicurus

‘Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.’ – Anna May Wong

‘I don’t think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.’ – Keith Haring

‘The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.’ – George Eliot

‘Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘Too much freedom can lead to the soul’s decay.’ – Prince

‘My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.’ – Michelangelo

‘Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier’s occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.’ – Rutherford B. Hayes

‘The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.’ – Kurt Vonnegut

‘Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.’ – Dorothy Dix

‘I’m not a fighter, but in my mind I’m fighting every day. ‘What’s new? What am I doing?’ I’m fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren’t samurai, but my soul is.’ – Masaharu Morimoto

‘Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.’ – George Carlin

‘To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.’ – Maria Montessori

‘The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.’ – Frank Lloyd Wright

‘Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.’ – Lady Bird Johnson

‘The authentic self is the soul made visible.’ – Sarah Ban Breathnach

‘The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.’ – James Allen

‘Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.’ – Frances Wright

‘The writer is the engineer of the human soul.’ – Joseph Stalin

‘Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.’ – Meg Rosoff

‘Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.’ – Zora Neale Hurston

‘Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.’ – King Solomon

‘Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.’ – Radhanath Swami

‘The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.’ – Robert J. Sawyer

‘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.’ – Tom Robbins

‘Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love.’ – Giada De Laurentiis

‘There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.’ – Josephine Hart

‘Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.’ – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

‘Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.’ – Niki de St. Phalle

‘I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.’ – Neil Armstrong

‘Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.’ – Moshe Dayan

‘Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.’ – Ellen DeGeneres

‘Rock and roll is not an instrument. Rock and roll isn’t even a style of music. Rock and roll is a spirit that’s been going since the blues, jazz, bebop, soul, R&B, heavy metal, punk rock and, yes, hip-hop.’ – MC Ren

‘I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You’ve got to be truthful. I don’t think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you’ve got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.’ – Howard Schultz

‘It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.’ – Petrarch

‘Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.’ – Denis Diderot

‘To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.’ – Brian Harris

‘Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.’ – Coretta Scott King

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

‘Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.’ – Torquato Tasso

‘I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.’ – Patrick Swayze

‘Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it’s sparse. There’s nothing that’s pretentious or planned. It’s just so gutsy.’ – Adele

‘Acting is not about being famous, it’s about exploring the human soul.’ – Annette Bening

‘Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.’ – Pablo Picasso

‘Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.’ – Thomas Merton

‘Beans have a soul.’ – Pythagoras

‘Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.’ – Mary McLeod Bethune

‘There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois

‘There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.’ – Evelyn Underhill

‘Damnation seize my soul if I give your quarters, or take any from you.’ – Edward Teach

‘Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.’ – Edwin Hubbel Chapin

‘The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.’ – Soichiro Honda

‘The more important a call to action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it. But to yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.’ – Steven Pressfield

‘No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.’ – Henry Taylor

‘Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.’ – George Sand

‘Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul – the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.’ – Langston Hughes

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

‘When you have the power of music within your soul and your heart, nothing can stop you.’ – Joey Jordison

‘You can fool a lot of yourself but you can’t fool the soul.’ – Mary Oliver

‘Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.’ – Gerard De Nerval

‘All real education is the architecture of the soul.’ – William Bennett

‘When God comes into your life, He lights a candle in your soul.’ – Anita Bryant

‘Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.’ – Rene Descartes

‘Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.’ – Marsha Norman

‘Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.’ – John Legend

‘Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things.’ – Dimebag Darrell

‘Reason is our soul’s left hand, faith her right.’ – John Donne

‘Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.’ – John Dryden

‘The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.’ – John Calvin

‘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.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘Punctuality is the soul of business.’ – Thomas Chandler Haliburton

‘Soul mate and rain are perfect combination.’ – Amrapali Gupta

‘A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.’ – Diogenes

‘Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.’ – Theodore Dreiser

‘These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.’ – Virginia Woolf

‘People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one’s soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.’ – Samuel L. Jackson

‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.’ – Moses

‘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.’ – Jawaharlal Nehru

‘Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.’ – Steve Jobs

‘God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.’ – Ernest Renan

‘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.’ – Arnold Bennett

‘Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye… it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.’ – Edvard Munch

‘I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.’ – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

‘Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘There’s nothing better than live music. It’s raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.’ – Dhani Jones

‘The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.’ – Hazrat Inayat Khan

‘Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘Everything about your life, about your body, grows! Your cells regenerate; your hair, your nails, everything grows for your entire life. And your soul needs exploration and growth. And the only way you’ll get it is by forcing yourself to be uncomfortable. Forcing yourself to get outside, out of your head.’ – Mel Robbins

‘Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.’ – Douglas MacArthur

‘Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.’ – Marcel Proust

‘Be true to your heart… put your whole heart and soul into it, and then whatever you do, it will shine through.’ – Jamie Brewer

‘It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.’ – John Burroughs

‘Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘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.’ – William Ernest Henley

‘I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Some sunshine is good for the soul, but I always make sure I wear a big hat.’ – Miranda Kerr

‘While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.’ – Eugene V. Debs

‘Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.’ – Kailash Kher

‘Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy – some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.’ – Nikos Kazantzakis

‘When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here… in the Southwest… I still live in New Mexico.’ – Rudolfo Anaya

‘As for reputation, though it be a glorious instrument of advancing our Master’s service, yet there is a better than that: a clean heart, a single eye, and a soul full of God. A fair exchange if, by the loss of reputation, we can purchase the lowest degree of purity of heart.’ – John Wesley

‘Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.’ – Alexander Pope

‘My father, Phillip Gilmore, was very talented. He was getting seriously into dancing. He was on ‘Soul Train’ and won $2,500. But the Bay Area was too small for him. I don’t think he had the space to do what he needed to do.’ – Mahershala Ali

‘Maybe stories are just data with a soul.’ – Brene Brown

‘Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl? – Anne Frank’ – Anne Frank

‘Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.’ – Ruth St. Denis

‘Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.’ – Jean de La Fontaine

‘The divine light which you carry within your soul is inherited from God because you are His daughter. Part of the light which makes you so magnificent is the blessing of womanhood.’ – Margaret D. Nadauld

‘A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.’ – Daniel Boone

‘Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.’ – Henri Matisse

‘The end of all good music is to affect the soul.’ – Claudio Monteverdi

‘Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘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.’ – William James

‘All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.’ – Fernando Pessoa

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

‘Typically a weekend retreat for the heart, soul and palate, brunch is the perfect way to unwind and reconnect.’ – Marcela Valladolid

‘Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.’ – Jeremy Taylor

‘What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.’ – Joseph Addison

‘Winning is not selling your soul. Winning is not betrayal. Winning is the means of applying your principles.’ – Liz Kendall

‘Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.’ – Voltaire

‘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.’ – Meister Eckhart

‘Don’t sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.’ – Dorothy Salisbury Davis

‘There is a saying, ‘Eyes are the windows to the soul.’ It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don’t know, I’d like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color.’ – Peng Liyuan

‘I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.’ – Jean Cocteau

‘The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.’ – Mercy Otis Warren

‘The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.’ – Daniel Defoe

‘O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.’ – Anne Boleyn

‘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.’ – Cal Thomas

‘The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.’ – Sophie Swetchine

‘Our calling as gospel ministers is to preach the truth, confront sin, and call all men to repentance and obedience to the gospel – the good news that achieves soul conversion and saves sinners from eternal wrath.’ – John MacArthur

‘All the riches of the world are not of sufficient value to redeem one perishing soul.’ – Ellen G. White

‘Soul music is timeless.’ – Alicia Keys

‘Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.’ – Jim Valvano

‘Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.’ – Plato

‘Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.’ – Francis Bacon

‘I feel like I’m walking into the illustrated pages of a fairy tale when I go to the vineyard. It draws you to nature and cleanses your soul, and you just don’t want to leave.’ – Zhao Wei

‘Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.’ – Isaac of Nineveh

‘In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.’ – Bob Iger

‘We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease.’ – Dorothea Dix

‘My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.’ – Aldous Huxley

‘I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That’s because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.’ – Tobey Maguire

‘Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.’ – Robert Browning

‘The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.’ – Joan Miro

‘You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. Some people manage to find their soul mate. Others don’t. I think love is like a lottery.’ – Kylie Minogue

‘Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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

‘Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘I don’t drink much anymore, but when I traveled with Frank Sinatra, God rest his soul, I used to drink like I could do it. He made it a test. In Vegas, the Rat Pack, which I was a little part of, drank all night and slept most of the day. Then, about 5 o’clock, we’d meet in the hotel steam room, lock the door, and steam our brains out.’ – Don Rickles

‘The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.’ – Robert Schumann

‘Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.’ – Josephine Baker

‘Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.’ – Saint Basil

‘Music is the voice of the soul and can move mountains. People receive the message of the soul through the voice. It is a voice, the tone that moves something in people.’ – Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

‘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.’ – William Blake

‘Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.’ – Ramakrishna

‘I used to believe in one true soul mate, but not anymore. I believe you can have a few.’ – Paul Walker

‘I feel like God put me here to help out with people’s soul, man.’ – Travis Scott

‘Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.’ – Agatha Christie

‘If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.’ – Oswald Spengler

‘You play with a pure heart and a clear conscience and a clear soul, then good things happen.’ – Fred VanVleet

‘The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘The spoken word is man’s physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.’ – Menander

‘There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.’ – Carlos Santana

‘People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.’ – Jane Goodall

‘It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.’ – William Dean Howells

‘Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.’ – Pindar

‘You don’t have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.’ – L. Ron Hubbard

‘That is what the intuition is for: it is the direct messenger of the soul.’ – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

‘Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.’ – Albert Schweitzer

‘The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.’ – M. Scott Peck

‘The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.’ – Gordon Gee

‘Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.’ – Edwin Markham

‘The soul never thinks without a picture.’ – Aristotle

‘Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one’s private soul.’ – Patrick Kavanagh

‘Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It’s the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.’ – Ellen Hopkins

‘My house is a bit like a teenager’s bedroom. The kind of pictures you have hanging up on your wall say a lot about you. I’ve got ones of Evel Knievel, Elvis and Starsky and Hutch, signed by David Soul.’ – Tim Vine

‘What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.’ – Frederic Chopin

‘How we need another soul to cling to.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘Being an engineer is to live in a mean, bare prison cell and regard yourself the sovereign of limitless space… for each engineer has a magician in his soul.’ – John DeLorean

‘A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong – not taking the loss – that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.’ – Jesse Livermore

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

‘The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.’ – Josiah Gilbert Holland

‘One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it’s a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.’ – Himani Shivpuri

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

‘Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul. But soul is soul, and it’s been around; it will never go away.’ – Maxwell

‘Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.’ – Rumi

‘The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.’ – Groucho Marx

‘Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul.’ – Maximillian Degenerez

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

‘To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. It means being righteous from the very depth of our soul, not only in our actions but, more importantly, in our thoughts and in our hearts.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.’ – Ernest Dimnet

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

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

‘The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.’ – J. G. Ballard

‘Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.’ – George William Russell

‘The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many.’ – Dayananda Saraswati

‘Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.’ – Mary Shelley

‘While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business.’ – Jamshyd Godrej

‘Mr. Brad Delp. J’ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.’ – Brad Delp

‘Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores – more than abundantly – what it takes away.’ – Jim Elliot

‘Low-level programming is good for the programmer’s soul.’ – John Carmack

‘If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.’ – Emile Durkheim

‘Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel’s face.’ – Lydia M. Child

‘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.’ – Charles Kingsley

‘Do activities you’re passionate about – which make your heart and soul feel perky – including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.’ – Karen Salmansohn

‘May my soul bloom in love for all existence.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘Everybody’s going to approach a character differently, depending upon what they bring to it on their own intellectual level or their feelings from their heart and soul.’ – Peter Cullen

‘Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.’ – Debbie Ford

‘Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.’ – Andre Maurois

‘Silence is refreshment for the soul.’ – Wynonna Judd

‘As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.’ – Henry Van Dyke

‘Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God’s laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy.’ – James E. Faust

‘Love is the beauty of the soul.’ – Saint Augustine

‘I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘I’d sell my soul for a good cause.’ – Hugh Jackman

‘I think sexuality is a window into someone’s soul.’ – Alan Ball

‘The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.’ – Mason Cooley

‘For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.’ – Christopher Hitchens

‘We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.’ – Larry Norman

‘The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.’ – Victor Hugo

‘When I began to listen to poetry, it’s when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else.’ – Joy Harjo

‘Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.’ – Alex Karras

‘My favorite room in the house is my kitchen. It’s definitely the heart and soul of our home. It’s where we gather in the morning as a family to start the day, and it’s where we wind down at night over supper.’ – Kimberly Schlapman

‘If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, – Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.’ – Richard Lovelace

‘What is forgiveness? An emotion? A coping mechanism? An element of deepest faith? A way for the heart and soul to combat the type of hate, anger, rage and a thirst for revenge that could ultimately consume a person? All of those and more?’ – Mike Barnicle

‘It’s better to have a rich soul than to be rich.’ – Olga Korbut

‘One time, when I was in my teens, jamming in a Kansas City club, I was doing all right until I tried doing double tempo on ‘Body and Soul.’ Everybody fell out laughing. I went home and cried and didn’t want to play again for three months.’ – Charlie Parker

‘The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.’ – W. Somerset Maugham

‘What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.’ – Theodore Roethke

‘All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?’ – Chanakya

‘Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul ‘prays in us with unspeakable groanings’.’ – Edith Stein

‘Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.’ – Stephane Mallarme

‘One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I’ll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.’ – Lord Byron

‘I believe in finding a soul mate. I’ve always been in monogamous relationships. I would never want to be in an open one. It’d be too awful. Monogamy can be hard work for some people. I don’t think it applies to everybody, and I don’t think a lot of people can do it.’ – Scarlett Johansson

‘He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.’ – David Lloyd George

‘It is very important to have connection with your soul and open your heart to people.’ – Ludovico Einaudi

‘Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.’ – Nora Roberts

‘Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.’ – George Carman

‘The agricultural working people should be imbued with a thoroughgoing faith in socialism and steadfast anti-imperialist and class consciousness so that they can regard our style of socialism as their life and soul, love it ardently, and fight staunchly against the imperialists’ moves for ideological and cultural infiltration.’ – Kim Jong-un

‘One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.’ – George W. Bush

‘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.’ – Akhenaton

‘The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.’ – Emma Goldman

‘My purpose… to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.’ – Juliette Gordon Low

‘Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.’ – Mahavira

‘I think it’s really important for people to have a passion… a hobby… riding horses or climbing or riding motorcycles or whatever it is. It’s very good for the soul. And if you can find a soulmate with whom you can share similar experiences with… one who enjoys them as much as you do, then it’s kind of a match made in heaven really.’ – Charley Boorman

‘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.’ – Kate Chopin

‘Gospel music to me has always been a balm for the soul. It has been able to usher in the spirit, usher in worship, true worship and praise, healing. I find the music to be very good at healing and the passion, you know, which is a testimony being told in song.’ – Kim Fields

‘A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.’ – William Morris

‘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.’ – John Milton

‘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.’ – Washington Irving

‘For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.’ – Gerald R. Ford

‘The soul, who is lifted by a very great and yearning desire for the honor of God and the salvation of souls, begins by exercising herself, for a certain space of time, in the ordinary virtues, remaining in the cell of self-knowledge, in order to know better the goodness of God towards her.’ – Catherine of Siena

‘Soul food is find the most healthy food you can get and make it as toxic as possible. Collard greens are good for you. Kale is good for you. Yams are good for you. But they no longer are good for you when you start pouring the sugar, the oil, the butter, all of those items that make it unhealthy.’ – Eric Adams

‘It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world… but for Wales!’ – Robert Bolt

‘If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.’ – Logan Pearsall Smith

‘Love, peace and soul.’ – Don Cornelius

‘Music is a language in itself and the songs have their own soul, every song has its soul.’ – Rosalia

‘We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain – grief, despair, depression, dementia – is less accessible to treatment. It’s connected to who we are – our personality, our character, our soul, if you like.’ – Richard Eyre

‘The destiny of man is in his own soul.’ – Herodotus

‘The happiness of one’s own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one’s own happiness, the happiness of others.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘If you’re a persistent soul artistically, you’ll find the truth of your art.’ – Ken Jeong

‘Color is a power which directly influences the soul.’ – Wassily Kandinsky

‘Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.’ – John Quincy Adams

‘I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.’ – A. R. Rahman

‘Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.’ – Thomas Fuller

‘The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.’ – Otto Rank

‘Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing – where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.’ – Phillips Brooks

‘Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.’ – Friedrich Schiller

‘Can dancing change your life? Yes. It’s changed mine. What I’ve learned is, it’s not about how good you are technically. It’s about your soul coming through. It’s about having fun.’ – Lisa Rinna

‘No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.’ – Martha Beck

‘A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.’ – Eileen Caddy

‘I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.’ – Andrew Jackson

‘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.’ – Louise Brooks

‘The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.’ – Henry Rollins

‘Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.’ – Owen Feltham

‘You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing.’ – Marie Stopes

‘I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That’s good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.’ – Gal Gadot

‘The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too – the mind is damaged, too.’ – Ta-Nehisi Coates

‘Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.’ – Homer

‘The dancer’s body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.’ – Isadora Duncan

‘Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?’ – Robert A. Cook

‘A home without books is a body without soul.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘If a song’s about something I’ve experienced or that could’ve happened to me it’s good. But if it’s alien to me, I couldn’t lend anything to it. Because that’s what soul is all about.’ – Aretha Franklin

‘If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘To be creative means to connect. It’s to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.’ – Nawal El Saadawi

‘Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.’ – Edward Bach

‘What’s in your soul is in your soul.’ – Whitney Houston

‘Oh yeah, dancing’s part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.’ – John Travolta

‘The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.’ – Ben Nicholson

‘For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul.’ – Guillermo del Toro

‘The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.’ – Albert Pike

‘Good soul music should make you feel something in your heart, in your body, and in your spirit. That’s what I try to do both in the studio and on stage.’ – Goapele

‘Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.’ – Plato

‘If you love someone truly, just look into her eyes. You will find your soul in her.’ – Vivek Oberoi

‘As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.’ – Lata Mangeshkar

‘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.’ – James Baldwin

‘When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.’ – Franklin Graham

‘For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.’ – Yves Klein

‘Preachers are not called to be politicians but soul winners.’ – Jerry Falwell

‘The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.’ – Ellen G. White

‘Lauryn Hill’s always been a hero of mine. And Bruno Mars, Janelle Monae and Adele, those are the current artists I would reference in terms of who’s been able to do really amazing pop records with really cool, organic throwback elements of soul in there as well.’ – Judith Hill

‘Plastic surgery can’t make you younger or more beautiful, because beauty is in your eyes, isn’t it? It’s in your soul; you can’t strap it on.’ – Sarah Parish

‘I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.’ – William Booth

‘Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level – and that’s never going to get lost.’ – Jill Scott

‘A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance – anything creative. It doesn’t promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul, and that’s good.’ – Marc Jacobs

‘Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?’ – John Keats

‘If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn’t it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?’ – Richard Avedon

‘Tone has the living soul.’ – Shinichi Suzuki

‘I know my soul is beautiful; I know I’m a good person. And that will never change for me.’ – Khloe Kardashian

‘In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.’ – Yitzhak Rabin

‘Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.’ – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

‘To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial purposes time is mutually agreed on, but there is really no such thing.’ – Richard Jefferies

‘In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.’ – Eyvind Johnson

‘It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.’ – Alice Walker

‘The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That’s where the music lives. That’s where my music comes from.’ – Clarence Clemons

‘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.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‘Artist.” – Edgar Allan Poe

‘To be a good actor… it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.’ – Sarah Bernhardt

‘When I sing, I don’t want them to see that my face is black. I don’t want them to see that my face is white. I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.’ – Marian Anderson

‘A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.’ – T. E. Lawrence

‘To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.’ – Simone Weil

‘In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘Every building must have… its own soul.’ – Louis Kahn

‘I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.’ – Cesare Beccaria

‘Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.’ – John Adams

‘Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.’ – Bryant H. McGill

‘My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.’ – Ezra Furman

‘To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.’ – Aristotle

‘A puny body weakens the soul.’ – Paul Cezanne

‘As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.’ – Catharine Beecher

‘If I can’t put my heart and soul into a film, I don’t take it up.’ – Diljit Dosanjh

‘Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.’ – Iris Murdoch

‘The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.’ – Henryk Sienkiewicz

‘The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.’ – William Inge

‘Music is a part of someone’s soul. Music is a feeling for me. And if that soul is evil, then I don’t want anything to do with it.’ – Yungblud

‘Speech is the mirror of the soul.’ – Publilius Syrus

‘Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.’ – Maria Montessori

‘What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.’ – Billy Graham

‘There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.’ – Alfred Einstein

‘The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o’ mine o mother o’ mine.’ – Rudyard Kipling

‘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.’ – Ralph Peters

‘She’s a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.’ – Jeff Buckley

‘Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.’ – Bill Viola

‘Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the human soul. The True Self is not our creation, but God’s. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.’ – Sue Monk Kidd

‘Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you’ve got to run like an antelope out of control!’ – Trey Anastasio

‘Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter – in the eye.’ – Charlotte Bronte

‘God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.’ – Alfred Adler

‘I am not interested in anything that doesn’t have a genuine heart to it. You’ve got to have soul in the hole. If that isn’t there, I don’t see the point.’ – Nick Cave

‘It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.’ – Sofia Kovalevskaya

‘Above all else, deep in my soul, I’m a tough Irishwoman.’ – Maureen O’Hara

‘Soul music is pain – you can hear the slaves, the beatin’ and the hurtin’.’ – Link Wray

‘I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.’ – John Lennon

‘Music is an outburst of the soul.’ – Frederick Delius

‘Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘We love in another’s soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.’ – Irving Layton

‘I believe in laughter. I believe laughter is good for the soul. I believe in making other people laugh to make them feel good.’ – Anthony Ray Hinton

‘In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.’ – Mary Renault

‘It doesn’t surprise me that men in their twenties and thirties are often looking for a much older woman. What is the problem with a man of 30 being with a woman of 50? It is a matter of energy and the soul, not a matter of age of the body.’ – Monica Bellucci

‘Everyone thinks I’m ethereal. But I’m not like that, you know. I’m not ethereal. Well, I might have a little bit of that quality to me, that ‘old soul’ thing, but I’m not ethereal.’ – Saoirse Ronan

‘Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.’ – Vincent Van Gogh

‘Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.’ – Virginia Woolf

‘Re-examine all that you have been told… dismiss that which insults your soul.’ – Walt Whitman

‘Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.’ – Ramana Maharshi

‘The whole soul is in the whole body, in the bones and in the veins and in the heart; it is no more present in one part than in another, and it is no less present in one part than in the whole, nor in the whole less than in one part.’ – Giordano Bruno

‘If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.’ – Paul Whiteman

‘The wilderness is healing, a therapy for the soul.’ – Nicholas Kristof

‘I mean, music totally comes from your soul.’ – Martin Scorsese

‘I tend to be one who just speaks from my soul, and so what comes out sometimes is rather harsh. In that sense, I’m very much a part of the tradition of a Frederick Douglass or a Malcolm X who used hyperbolic language at times to bring attention to the state of emergency.’ – Cornel West

‘I’ve owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we’ve had long conversations in flight. There’s a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.’ – Richard Bach

‘America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German – German in my soul.’ – Marlene Dietrich

‘We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.’ – James Hillman

‘It is a troubled soul that forces the human being to act. It is some kind of gangrene within you, inside of you, that eats your soul, that forces you to save your soul.’ – John Kani

‘I won’t sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don’t think that’s bad.’ – Jada Pinkett Smith

‘I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: ‘You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.” – Rumi

‘The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.’ – Alexander Smith

‘I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois

‘You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘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.’ – Muriel Spark

‘There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It’s bound to try a man’s soul.’ – Steven Spielberg

‘I’m never gonna sell my soul or violate myself for no amount of dollars or fame.’ – Dave East

‘I think it’s important to keep moving forward so that the soul can grow.’ – Gauri Khan

‘When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.’ – Maimonides

‘I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what’s important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it’s through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man.’ – Louie Schwartzberg

‘Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?’ – Carl Jung

‘Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don’t know in your own soul.’ – Emily Carr

‘The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.’ – Nikos Kazantzakis

‘The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘People remember the different variations of stuffed cabbage based on their mothers and grandmothers. It’s not just about food. Eating something as traditional as this is a cultural experience, one that is spiritual and nostalgic. It manages to transcend time; it’s food for the soul.’ – Gil Marks

‘Saturday morning, you knew what was cool by what was on ‘Soul Train.” – Nick Cannon

‘A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.’ – Edward Young

‘I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.’ – Steven Tyler

‘Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.’ – Anne Sexton

‘Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It’s conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it’s a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.’ – Nikolai Gogol

‘My listening changed when I heard music from Stax, Atlantic, Motown because by that age I thought anything that my parents listened to must be square. So I had to find my own rock n’ roll, as it were, and I found it in black soul music.’ – Robert Palmer

‘The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one’s soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive – you are leaking.’ – Charles Lamb

‘If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.’ – Charles Bukowski

‘All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘George Bush looked into Putin’s eyes and saw his soul in the first meeting he had in Slovenia. And then in the next meeting, he realized his soul was very dark.’ – Bill Browder

‘President Reagan likes to say Uncle Sam is a kindly old man with a spine of steel, and that he is. But I want to see Uncle Sam as well with a mind and with a heart and with a soul and a conscience.’ – Walter F. Mondale

‘Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.’ – John B. S. Haldane

‘One problem I have with faith-healing is that it tends to be focused only on the physical aspect of healing. But Jesus always backed away when people came to him only to get their physical needs met. My goodness, he was ready to have you lop off your hand! His real interest was in healing the soul.’ – Joni Eareckson Tada

‘I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.’ – Anne Rice

‘Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet’ner of life, and solder of society.’ – Robert Blair

‘One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it… and the journey is always towards the other soul.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘My soul has grown deep like the rivers.’ – Langston Hughes

‘I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me.’ – Erik Hassle

‘Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.’ – Plato

‘It destroys the soul to hear that you’re all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.’ – Freddie Mercury

‘I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music – gospel, blues, jazz and R&B – is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I’m telling you.’ – Quincy Jones

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

‘There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.’ – Victor Hugo

‘Music is the soul of language.’ – Max Heindel

‘There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?’ – Wole Soyinka

‘It’s ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.’ – Rona Barrett

‘Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.’ – Pythagoras

‘I tell you, gospel music is very uplifting. It’s great. It’s just a lot of fun to write, and it’s wonderful for the heart, soul, mind, and spirit. It’s just great.’ – Dion DiMucci

‘There is a brief moment when all there is in a man’s mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.’ – Yousuf Karsh

‘I’ve just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.’ – Beth Gibbons

‘My mother was a very sweet soul and a beautiful person, but she had a lot of fear.’ – John Grant

‘I can say, ‘Well, I’m a male. I’m a male human. I’m a medical doctor. I’m an author…’ If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, ‘I am a soul. I am a spirit.’ If I go into science, I will say, ‘I am energy. I am light.’ But the truth is I have no idea what I am.’ – Don Miguel Ruiz

‘But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?’ – Paracelsus

‘Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.’ – George Eliot

‘I think, being from east Tennessee, you’re kinda born with a little lonesome in your soul, in your blood. You know you’ve got that Appalachian soul.’ – Ashley Monroe

‘Actors may not realize the extent of their own power. Acting is creation. It’s them bringing their own stuff, letting it marinate in their soul, in their creative engine.’ – Danai Gurira

‘Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.’ – William Shakespeare

‘The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.’ – Taylor Caldwell

‘Blake said that the body was the soul’s prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the ‘windows of the soul.’ When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.’ – Jim Morrison

‘The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.’ – Georg Hermes

‘Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.’ – Saint Augustine

‘Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.’ – Rebecca West

‘Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

‘I always say that I was born in the wrong era. I should’ve been born in the ’70s or ’80s when love meant so much more than it does today. In this busy world, we forget to find each other, fall in love, and go all the way for our soul mates.’ – Mawra Hocane

‘When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.’ – Julia Margaret Cameron

‘To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, ‘Where’s your home?’ I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.’ – Pico Iyer

‘Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.’ – Jean Racine

‘Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.’ – Bob Hayes

”Heirs’ is really a good drama. Everyone put out their heart and soul into this series, from the actors to the whole staff. That’s why I think we won awards for this drama.’ – Lee Min-ho

‘When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.’ – Max Beerbohm

”Crash’ came from personal experience. I saw things inside me from living in L.A. that made me uncomfortable. I saw horrible things in people and saw terrible things in myself. I saw a black director completely humiliated, but the three people around me just thought it was funny. ‘No,’ I said, ‘that is selling your soul.” – Paul Haggis

‘I consider what I do soul music. It’s music that is concerned with the soul.’ – Lecrae

‘I used to define success as being able to produce any result you wanted, whether it was a relationship, weight-loss, being a millionaire, impacting the culture, changing society, whatever it might be – it might be homelessness, whatever – and lately, I’ve redefined success as ‘fulfilling your soul’s purpose.” – Jack Canfield

‘The sinner who suddenly realizes God’s love for him and then looks at his rejection of that love feels a loss similar to the death of a loved one. A deep void is created in the soul and a loneliness akin to the agony of death.’ – Mother Angelica

‘Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.’ – Ludwig van Beethoven

‘To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.’ – Susan Vreeland

‘Union Square Cafe is all soul, not brain.’ – Danny Meyer

‘Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘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.’ – Henry Fielding

‘It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.’ – Imelda Marcos

‘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!’ – Robert Browning

‘Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.’ – Richard Schickel

‘When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft – not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.’ – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

‘Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘I am a simple soul.’ – Fiona Bruce

‘I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading – nay, devouring – book after book after book. Books were my soul’s delight.’ – Nikki Grimes

‘I don’t know if a company can have a soul, but I like to think it can.’ – William Clay Ford, Jr.

‘I’m very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don’t really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of a God. It’s about cosmic energy, a little spark of which is inside every individual as the soul.’ – Bharati Mukherjee

‘I’m honored to have been chosen as a fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. I am hugely appreciative for the support I have had throughout my life, and I look forward to using the grant to help institutions that have fed my soul and to support new work that inspires me.’ – Lin-Manuel Miranda

‘Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind.’ – Shawn Amos

‘I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.’ – Phil Jackson

‘I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.’ – Rebecca Ferguson

‘Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.’ – Gary Vaynerchuk

‘Sure, I could of done it different… put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.’ – Wavy Gravy

‘I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.’ – Diane Lane

‘All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.’ – John Ruskin

‘There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you.’ – Etel Adnan

‘I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.’ – John Chrysostom

‘The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.’ – Dan Jenkins

‘Not only am I literally and figuratively the dark horse, I’m actually the poor horse. The only thing that I have going for me is my soul and my commitment to the American people.’ – Shirley Chisholm

‘The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘The Beatles, they brought a whole new dimension to pop music. Of course, the psychedelic period is much more interesting to me, starting with ‘Rubber Soul’ and on to the ‘White Album.’ Great, great records. I was such a Beatles fan. I was very sad when they broke up.’ – John McLaughlin

‘What I’ve been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I’ve found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.’ – Tyler Perry

‘Rock’n’roll saved my soul.’ – Thurston Moore

‘Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to… But gender identity is who you are in your soul.’ – Caitlyn Jenner

”Twas but my tongue, ’twas not my soul that swore.’ – Euripides

‘Sin is whatever obscures the soul.’ – Andre Gide

‘MAS*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.’ – Loretta Swit

‘Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination’s dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.’ – Nancy Gibbs

‘Being surrounded by creativity and talent is very enriching – not in terms of money but in terms of the soul and the spirit.’ – Antoine Arnault

‘Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they’ve been given.’ – CeeLo Green

‘I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.’ – Lou Rawls

‘I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That’s what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!’ – Raini Rodriguez

‘The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.’ – William Hazlitt

‘The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘I’m kind of like a folk singer mixed with soul, but I feel like if you really are a lover of hip-hop music, make the beat banging as possible and then put the message in so that people get the honey with the medicine.’ – India Arie

‘The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.’ – Edna St. Vincent Millay

‘I really do love bluesy-jazzy music, so I love Etta James, B.B. King and Billie Holiday. I love that they have soul in their voices – I think that’s something important is having.’ – Bridgit Mendler

‘Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.’ – Iman

‘The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga.’ – Dave Haywood

‘I’m thankful to my grandmother, who’s resting in peace right now. Bless her soul. She presented giving back in a way where it was so effortless. She would always find something to turn into a community-service thing or just a good deed for the day.’ – Quincy Brown

‘My soul is not for sale.’ – Caryl Chessman

‘People’s dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It’s what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.’ – Barbara Kingsolver

‘For a long time, soul music was maybe one of my favorite kinds of music.’ – Devendra Banhart

‘No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.’ – Aristotle

‘Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘I had to learn to do everything because I couldn’t find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself.’ – Ray Harryhausen

‘The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory – death.’ – William Alexander

‘Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.’ – Phoebe Cary

‘Under trees, the urban dweller might restore his troubled soul and find the blessing of a creative pause.’ – Walter Gropius

‘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.’ – Adlai Stevenson I

‘Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘If you believe indeed in the Lord Jesus for the salvation of your soul, if you walk uprightly and do not regard iniquity in your heart, if you continue to wait patiently, and believingly upon God; then answers will surely be given to your prayers.’ – George Muller

‘There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.’ – Joseph Addison

‘Never was a miser a brave soul.’ – George Herbert

‘Joe Carroll had a certain black comedy to him. But I think it’s lovely playing a man who, in his heart and soul, is a gentle man. And he’s wounded and complicated.’ – James Purefoy

‘We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.’ – Edward R. Murrow

‘If you take something out of the freezer, it’s cold, but what happens when it melts? It’s a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I’m more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.’ – Alber Elbaz

‘By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.’ – Saint Francis de Sales

‘The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.’ – Shirley MacLaine

‘Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.’ – David Mallet

‘Music is like the soul of the planet.’ – Taj Mahal

‘A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord’s pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.’ – Emily Dickinson

‘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.’ – Barry White

‘My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I’ve always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.’ – Kim Elizabeth

‘I desire a greatness of soul, an irradiance of mind, a deeper insight, a broader hope.’ – Richard Jefferies

‘My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.’ – Karel Capek

‘To seek after any shape of God, and to assign a form and image to Him, is a proof of man’s folly. For God, whosoever he be (if haply there be any other but the world itself), and in what part soever resident, all sense He is, all sight, all hearing: He is the whole of the life and of the soul, all of Himself.’ – Pliny the Elder

‘Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.’ – Francois Fenelon

‘Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?’ – Russell M. Nelson

‘In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang ’em, I gave myself goosebumps.’ – Sammy Hagar

‘The world assumes that we are very happy with high mansions, fine carriages, servants and attendants, huge investments, and concubines. But he who is without the honor and strength of the soul can be anything but happy.’ – Munshi Premchand

‘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.’ – Thomas Traherne

‘Music with a message is the music we love. Good vibrations. Positivity. Conscious influence of the heart and the mind and the soul.’ – Skip Marley

‘I remember the first time I saw the ‘Sugarhill Gang’ on Soul Train. I was 11 or 12. I was like, ‘What’s going on? How did those guys get on national TV?’ And then, when I was a little older, a rapper from the neighborhood got a record deal. I was shocked.’ – Jay-Z

‘My name is Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, but people know me as Bernie Mac. My mama, God rest her soul – she used to call me Beanie. Used to say, ‘Don’t you worry about Beanie. Beanie gonna be just fine. Beanie gonna surprise everyone.” – Bernie Mac

‘Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.’ – Gaston Bachelard

‘I describe myself as a big kid with an old soul, I’m very playful whimsical, but I definitely have that old soul as well.’ – Jidenna

‘Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.’ – Little Richard

‘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.’ – Hector Hugh Munro

‘Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.’ – Alexander Pope

‘The soul is healed by being with children.’ – Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

‘The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.’ – Rumi

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

‘A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.’ – James Allen

‘Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.’ – Mark Twain

‘Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.’ – Victor Hugo

‘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.’ – Paul Stanley

‘As an artist myself, I know what it’s like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.’ – Madonna Ciccone

‘I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.’ – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

‘There is something only a CEO uniquely can do, which is set that tone, which can then capture the soul of the collective.’ – Satya Nadella

‘Detroit is known as ‘Hockeytown,’ but the Lions are truly the soul of the city.’ – Jemele Hill

‘Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He’s singing and he’s writing songs from the bottom of his gut.’ – Robin Thicke

‘Oh, God, why don’t I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?’ – Marilyn French

‘I have met so many of my idols – like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer – all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, ‘Hey man, I’m busy,’ it would have crushed my soul.’ – Drake Bell

‘Tears are the summer showers to the soul.’ – Alfred Austin

‘Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.’ – Kevyn Aucoin

‘True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.’ – Albert Einstein

‘It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it’s energy. It’s the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.’ – Josef Albers

‘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.’ – Swami Vivekananda

‘I’m sitting at home every time there’s a Grammy. It’s like, ‘What is Sharon doing tonight?’ I’m sitting home watching it. But it’s OK. But if you go to Europe, there are a lot of young, independent labels that’s doing soul music. You might call them retro because they’re young and they’re trying to imitate somebody. But I ain’t retro.’ – Sharon Jones

‘I want to show everyone in this world that the soul is the source of our happiness, strength and health. Love actually comes from the soul, from the light.’ – Wim Hof

‘Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual – and the soul of a people.’ – Anwar Sadat

‘The price of empire is America’s soul, and that price is too high.’ – J. William Fulbright

”God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.’ – Isaac Newton

‘Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.’ – James A. Garfield

‘Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.’ – John Muir

‘I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What’s a soul? What’s it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?’ – Jane Campion

‘It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.’ – Randeep Hooda

‘Soul music is true to its name. It’s music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people’s spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it helps to heal them, transform them, that never goes out of style. People will always need something to relate to.’ – Andra Day

‘Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.’ – Ramakrishna

‘Prayer is a privilege and the soul’s sincere desire. We can move beyond routine and ‘checklist’ prayers and engage in meaningful prayer as we appropriately ask in faith and act, as we patiently persevere through the trial of our faith, and as we humbly acknowledge and accept ‘not my will, but Thine, be done.” – David A. Bednar

‘Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.’ – William Gurnall

‘I think all animals have souls. I feel certain that if we have souls, octopuses have souls, too. If you grant something a soul, it demands a certain level of sacredness. Look around us. The world is holy. It is full of souls.’ – Sy Montgomery

‘Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don’t know much more about soul than he did.’ – John Templeton

‘To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.’ – Pablo Picasso

‘Genius – to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘I want to put my soul into the music and still be who I am when it comes to an actual conversation.’ – Brent Faiyaz

‘The pinnacle of the fulfillment I can ever experience for my spirit and soul is to hear from the Lord, when I see Him face to face, ‘Well done my good and faithful servant.” – Nick Vujicic

‘Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.’ – Susan Estrich

‘My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn’t feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone’s table.’ – Camille Guaty

‘Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.’ – Geoffrey Chaucer

‘My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.’ – James Joyce

‘As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.’ – Eric Whitacre

‘For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don’t know my neighbors, where people don’t necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I’m missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people.’ – Sela Ward

‘Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter a particular person, at a certain time, place.’ – Brian Weiss

‘With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist’s soul, in musical sound.’ – Wassily Kandinsky

‘I’ve never been the guy who tried to line up three or four projects down the road. I like to find one piece that speaks to me and then pour my heart and soul into it. Then I come home, recoup, and relax.’ – Chris Cooper

‘In these times, God’s people must trust him for rest of body and soul.’ – David Wilkerson

‘Do you know why animals die in cages? Their soul dies.’ – Joe Exotic

‘Souljazz doesn’t reinvent soul, jazz or the fusion thereof, but it plays all of the above with the passion that drove its forefathers.’ – Anthony Fantano

‘If you can stay alive and enjoy life, that’s the whole heart and soul of life. That’s why I played with a smile on my face all these years.’ – Bruce Grobbelaar

‘No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.’ – Ginni Rometty

‘Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.’ – Michael J. Fox

‘Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it’s very possible that one influenced the other.’ – Ahmet Ertegun

‘All people have dignity. There’s nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.’ – Binyavanga Wainaina

‘It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.’ – Plato

‘To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus, receive my soul.’ – Anne Boleyn

‘Every single soul is a poem.’ – Michael Franti

‘God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.’ – Saint Ambrose

‘To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.’ – George Santayana

‘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.’ – Arnold Bennett

‘The soul’s joy lies in doing.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.’ – George A. Smith

‘Even spiritually advanced people are often confused. They feel an inner ecstasy which comes from the vital world, and they think this is the real delight. But it is not so. Real delight comes from the highest world to the soul, and from the soul it saturates the whole being.’ – Sri Chinmoy

‘In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.’ – Jerzy Kosinski

‘An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.’ – Timothy Leary

‘You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you’re lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I’m blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.’ – Maceo Parker

‘If business has my mind, music has my heart and soul.’ – Ananya Birla

‘When the soul, through its own fault… becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet – don’t tell a soul.’ – Richard Chamberlain

‘To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man’s use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘Lord, help my poor soul.’ – Edgar Allan Poe

‘I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.’ – William Kidd

‘To me, the biggest attraction is a woman’s charisma, her soul, her inner strength.’ – Fabio Lanzoni

‘Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.’ – Thomas Merton

‘Soul development depends on attachment and bonding. Every brain and body is genetically wired to develop itself, but the full soul development of brain and body depends on each child receiving the care of between two and five completely bonded caregivers.’ – Michael Gurian

‘This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.’ – Virginia Woolf

‘The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.’ – Jack Antonoff

‘Jeanie McCarthy is the love of my life. She’s the only woman who really understands me, my music, and my heart. It took me a long time to find my soul mate, but thank God I found her before I moved to the other side of time.’ – Jimmy Scott

‘We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune… Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.’ – John Burroughs

‘Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.’ – Ellen G. White

‘When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘He Who is your Lord, the All-Merciful cherisheth in His heart the desire of beholding the entire human race as one soul and one body.’ – Baha’u’llah

‘When you’re a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide ‘this happens, this happens, this happens’, whereas with literary writers it’s coming from their soul and their core. But with me it does come from my soul and my core, and my soul and my core often go AWOL, and then I’ve nothing to write.’ – Marian Keyes

‘My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That’s just not my style… I cook from the soul.’ – Aaron Sanchez

‘Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.’ – Sue Monk Kidd

‘A room without books is like a body without a soul.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.’ – W. Somerset Maugham

‘I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.’ – Tom Robbins

‘Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things – that religion which ‘sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind,’ which endows every object of sense with a living soul, which finds in the system of nature whatever is holy, mysterious and venerable, and inspires the bosom with sentiments of awe and veneration.’ – William Godwin

‘I did a lot of canoe tripping earlier on. I was on 10 trips, and I would get the feel of the forest and the wilderness, you know, that I always knew was in my soul to begin with.’ – Gordon Lightfoot

‘Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.’ – Jim Harrison

‘What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.’ – Voltaire

‘Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.’ – Paul Theroux

‘Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.’ – Edwin Hubbel Chapin

‘You can’t mass produce somebody’s heart and soul. It’s a very delicate thing.’ – Duff McKagan

‘And you can’t complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn’t that what everyone in the world wants to do? I’ve known Emma for a few years. She’s this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.’ – Eddie Redmayne

‘Manhattan is like Beverly Hills. And the soul of New York has moved to Brooklyn, where everything new and exciting seems to be.’ – Alec Baldwin

‘Mozart’s music is like an X-ray of your soul – it shows what is there, and what isn’t.’ – Isaac Stern

‘For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.’ – Aristotle

‘It is not possible to educate the will and the healthy soul that underlies it unless we develop insights that awaken energetic impulses in the soul and will.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘The records that I like, they have life and warmth and soul in them. Like the slap back on Scotty Moore’s guitar on ‘Mystery Train.’ You’re not gonna get that in a computer. You’re gonna want a live room, you’re gonna wanna bounce the tape, you’re gonna want real musicians, in a room, vibin’ off of each other.’ – Channing Tatum

‘The misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who’s confronted with it.’ – Joss Whedon

‘I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.’ – Christopher Hitchens

‘A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.’ – Jawaharlal Nehru

‘Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.’ – Herman Melville

‘A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.’ – Harriet Martineau

‘The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.’ – Eliza Farnham

‘I’ve not met a soul who wants to see The Wanted over One Direction. The thirst for those boys is insane.’ – James Corden

‘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.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.’ – Aldous Huxley

‘My family is still in Los Angeles. We listened to all sorts of music: Mexican music, oldies, soul, disco and rock & roll. I was surrounded by music.’ – Hope Sandoval

‘You can have energy in music and dance to it but still have soul.’ – Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

‘You’ve got to show your soul otherwise you’re just a piece of equipment.’ – Sylvester Stallone

‘Alas! all music jars when the soul’s out of tune.’ – Miguel de Cervantes

‘The films you do are not just for the audience. As an actor, you are putting your heart and soul into them.’ – Sai Pallavi

‘The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul.’ – Nicolas Malebranche

‘I like a lot of old-school R&B, soul, and classic rock.’ – Wiz Khalifa

‘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.’ – Peter De Vries

‘When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.’ – L. Ron Hubbard

‘The body is the soul’s poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.’ – Robert Herrick

‘When I got pregnant, I started singing again. It was my saving grace. I literally mean having this amazing human life, and our relationship in the sense of mother and child, redeemed my soul.’ – Dolores O’Riordan

‘The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.’ – Saint Augustine

‘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.’ – Akhenaton

‘I feel more and more, every day of my life, how much my dear mamma has done for my establishment. I was the youngest of all her daughters, and she has treated me as if I were the eldest, so that my whole soul is filled with the most tender gratitude.’ – Marie Antoinette

‘I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.’ – William Shakespeare

‘My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.’ – Horatio Nelson

‘The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music.’ – Travis Scott

‘The soul has many motions, body one.’ – Theodore Roethke

‘If you’ve got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You’re the superstar.’ – Krist Novoselic

‘The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul.’ – Donna Karan

‘The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it’s never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.’ – Robin Gibb

‘A short film is not a shortened feature film. It has a soul of its own.’ – Karthik Subbaraj

‘Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.’ – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

‘I have a soul the devil wouldn’t buy.’ – Ashley McBryde

‘There’s a reason poets often say, ‘Poetry saved my life,’ for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul’s suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.’ – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

‘I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.’ – Francis Quarles

‘I love musicians. I think artists are the most amazing people because they’re constantly creating beauty for the world. With all the crazy stuff going on in the world, then there’s artists reminding us of our humanity and reminding us of our heart and soul and what really matters.’ – Christie Brinkley

‘Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I’m no different. That’s definitely what I want in the future.’ – Cory Booker

‘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.’ – Emma Goldman

‘If you think of data as kind of an x-ray of our soul, it’s this window into our minds that the company has possessed. It’s a very, very powerful x-ray for them to hold because the more that you understand about somebody, the easier it is to manipulate them.’ – Franklin Foer

‘When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one’s living room as much as in one’s local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul.’ – Andrew O’Hagan

‘The physicality of a real relationship – one that encompasses mind, body and soul – ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.’ – Henry Cloud

‘Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your desk and your to-do list.’ – John Ortberg

‘Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.’ – Yoko Ono

‘The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.’ – Maria Montessori

‘I want to reach the people. This music is the people’s music. It’s music for your brain, for your heart, for your soul. That is what we always go to achieve. Soul united.’ – Stephen Marley

‘Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.’ – Jane Roberts

‘I don’t get too political in my music, because some people tend to get bored with the message: I say what’s necessary and leave it at that. The books of Malcolm X go deeper than any song. But entertainers can be educators. Music touches the soul. Knowledge touches the mind. When you combine the two, you capture the whole.’ – Big Daddy Kane

‘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.’ – Victor Hugo

‘Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.’ – Jurgen Moltmann

‘As the hart desires the spring of living water, so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body and see You in truth.’ – Catherine of Siena

‘Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.’ – Johannes Tauler

‘When you’re in love, you’ve found your soul mate, you think life is going one way, and suddenly it’s completely apparent it’s not. You have to rethink your whole purpose.’ – Scott Weiland

‘God puts certain things in certain people. I’m a restless soul. I’m always searching. I’m always pressing to find what truth is and what life is all about.’ – Jonathan Jackson

‘I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that’s my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again… the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.’ – J. G. Ballard

‘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.’ – Allan Bloom

‘You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don’t know the value of your own soul, it’s all foolishness.’ – Rumi

‘I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.’ – Yulia Tymoshenko

‘The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘Work is therapy for the soul.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.’ – Nikos Kazantzakis

‘It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois

‘James Dean was always a tortured soul.’ – Ansel Elgort

‘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.’ – Vincent Van Gogh

‘Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.’ – Walt Whitman

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

‘Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘I have no animosity against any living soul.’ – Heber J. Grant

‘The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.’ – John Dryden

‘Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love’s conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.’ – Radhanath Swami

‘The face is the soul of the body.’ – Ludwig Wittgenstein

‘When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.’ – Langston Hughes

‘I learn tons of John Frusciante’s licks from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I’m never going to play like the Chili Peppers, but I might use that if I’ve got a dub beat or reggae thing mixed with a soul thing.’ – Brian Fallon

‘Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.’ – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

‘Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one’s soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.’ – John Keats

‘I think there’s a void for some authentic soul music with an edge. I think there’s some people who grew up with Motown and Stevie Wonder that still can appreciate Future, Drake, and all these different things, too, but there shouldn’t be a void for those people, as well.’ – Anderson Paak

‘The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.’ – George Sand

‘Everybody, no matter what vocation they’re looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It’s so powerful.’ – Quincy Jones

‘By the life we live through the grace of Christ, the character is formed. The original loveliness begins to be restored to the soul. The attributes of the character of Christ are imparted, and the image of the Divine begins to shine forth.’ – Ellen G. White

‘A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.’ – Sophocles

‘A great melodic line is like a person’s soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are illustrating the soul.’ – Ludovico Einaudi

‘I can’t say a specific artist inspired or influenced ‘Soul Travel.” – Caleb McLaughlin

‘Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.’ – James E. Faust

‘The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul.’ – Richard Jefferies

‘Don’t you forget what’s divine in the Russian soul and that’s resignation.’ – Joseph Conrad

‘If you like good ol’ fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.’ – Dolly Parton

‘When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.’ – Camille Pissarro

‘Food feeds both the body and soul – there are clear reasons to eat a balanced diet, but there are also reasons you cling to your mom’s secret chicken noodle soup recipe when you’re sick.’ – Michael Mina

‘I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.’ – M. Russell Ballard

‘A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.’ – Carl Jung

‘What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘Marrying Martin and the movement perfected my journey of discovery, soothed my yearning to pour out the values and vision within my soul.’ – Coretta Scott King

‘I think the word ‘soul’ – it depends on what you define by ‘soul.’ If you’re defining it as a mystical aura that is outside the body, I cannot measure that. If you’re talking about soul as human nature, the rank of spectrum of behaviors and reactions that we know humans produce under certain circumstances, that is measurable.’ – Miguel Nicolelis

‘I’ve got more soul than I can control.’ – Rocky Johnson

‘As powerful as is our soul’s call, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. We’re not alone if we’ve been mowed down by Resistance; millions of good men and women have bitten the dust before us.’ – Steven Pressfield

‘The heart and soul of a Navy SEAL is somebody who’s committed to their country and committed to their teammates.’ – Howard E. Wasdin

‘The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘This is not the time to marry. My country is calling me. I have taken a vow to serve the country with my heart and soul.’ – Bhagat Singh

‘When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible.’ – Mohamed Al-Fayed

‘At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips.’ – Allen Johnson

‘You have to go through those mountains and valleys – because that’s what life is: soul growth.’ – Wayne Newton

‘What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.’ – Charles Bukowski

‘We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.’ – Saint Basil

‘If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.’ – Meister Eckhart

‘The companies that survive longest are the one’s that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.’ – Charles Handy

‘I love ‘Criminal Minds’ and have put my heart and soul into it for the last 12 years. I had hoped to see it through to the end, but that won’t be possible now. I would just like to say thank you to the writers, producers, actors, our amazing crew, and, most importantly, the best fans that a show could ever hope to have.’ – Thomas Gibson

‘The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.’ – Francis Bacon

‘The emotions have been seen as the center of woman’s soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman’s formation.’ – Edith Stein

‘The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.’ – Wassily Kandinsky

‘I’m just going to go live life. I’m going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.’ – Caitlyn Jenner

‘There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, you know, Superman’s X-ray vision into the soul. One of the reasons I left psychiatry is that I didn’t believe that.’ – Charles Krauthammer

‘Whether I’m a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn’t change, whether I’m with adults or with my friends.’ – Hailee Steinfeld

‘And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack.’ – Richard Schickel

‘The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.’ – Plato

‘The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.’ – John Ruskin

‘Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘To buy happiness is to sell soul.’ – Douglas Horton

‘Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.’ – Burning Spear

‘Living my life socially means there is a swagger to how I dress, walk; it’s not about being ‘cool,’ it’s just being me – that’s understanding your place and your center – that’s what swagger is, and I guess that’s where the soul comes from.’ – BJ the Chicago Kid

‘Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman’s body and a pitiably starved soul.’ – Mary MacLane

‘One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.’ – Knute Rockne

‘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

‘Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘My parents know how passionate I’ve always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.’ – Alexander Ludwig

‘Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.’ – William Hazlitt

‘I’m from the punk generation, but I make romantic, soft soul music. I like the bizarre disconnect of that but, clearly, some people don’t.’ – Mick Hucknall

‘The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.’ – Pythagoras

‘All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.’ – Alexander Pope

‘I want everybody to know my name because I feel like I give so much of my heart and my soul in my music.’ – Tech N9ne

‘The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.’ – Phillips Brooks

‘Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘Take the risk. Take the chance. Put your heart and soul into it, because when you put your soul into it, you will become what you’ve always dreamed. You yourself will become a legend.’ – Jamie Brewer

‘When I listen to Amy Winehouse, I believe that her heart and soul is in the music, or if I listen to other British artists like Duffy or Estelle. The aesthetic of it is different, and it’s my point of view. It’s not anything formulaic.’ – Jay-Z

‘So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele – you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music – it’s clear in her writing that that’s where it comes from.’ – Babyface

‘Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.’ – Ricky Martin

‘Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn’t put your soul in a dishwasher! – Masaharu Morimoto’ – Masaharu Morimoto

‘Science without conscience is the death of the soul.’ – Francois Rabelais

‘I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.’ – Jim Morrison

”Nation’ was one that I’d have killed myself if I hadn’t written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.’ – Terry Pratchett

‘Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.’ – Robert Southey

‘Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.’ – Gilbert Murray

‘Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.’ – George Eliot

‘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.’ – Tori Amos

‘Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your people, and comedy is almost like a medicine to your soul in a way.’ – Hiam Abbass

‘The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?’ – Dag Hammarskjold

‘I want to do what I feel in my soul. My soul won’t lead me wrong.’ – Ciara

‘The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.’ – Arthur Middleton

‘Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don’t look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist’s soul, my actor’s soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.’ – Liam Neeson

‘When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured… At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?’ – Billy Graham

‘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.’ – Joy Harjo

‘Descriptions of inner, spiritual processes are much more liable to misunderstanding than descriptions of events in the physical world. Such misunderstandings arise easily because the life of the soul is in constant movement and because we fail to bear in mind that the life of the soul is very different from life in the physical world.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.’ – T. E. Lawrence

‘I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign clime. Hearts met hearts, minds joined with minds; and what were the secondary trials of pain to the enfeebled, suffering body when daily was administered the soul’s medicine and food!’ – Dorothea Dix

‘Soul music as we’ve always known it hasn’t changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.’ – Don Cornelius

‘Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.’ – Simone Weil

‘It is only to the individual that a soul is given.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.’ – Virginia Woolf

‘We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘Fire really means a certain kind of burning in the soul that one can no longer tolerate when one is pushed against a wall.’ – Cornel West

‘The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.’ – Gaston Bachelard

‘Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.’ – Ramakrishna

‘I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul.’ – Victor Hugo

‘In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘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.’ – Joseph Addison

‘And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.’ – Plato

‘I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘Ten years ago, I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I’d smile when I was sad, pretend to like people who appalled me. What I now know is that losses aren’t cataclysmic if they teach the heart and soul their natural cycle of breaking and healing.’ – Martha Beck

‘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.’ – Saint Augustine

‘Dancing’s part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.’ – John Travolta

‘While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘I count life just a stuff to try the soul’s strength on.’ – Robert Browning

‘The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.’ – Alfred Adler

‘Although one soul lives in the whole body, and all the body’s members are controlled by one soul, still the whole body and the whole soul and the parts of the universe are vivified by a certain total spirit.’ – Giordano Bruno

‘I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.’ – Rumi

‘Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it’s accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another’s eyes or heart.’ – Sue Monk Kidd

‘It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one’s very soul and body.’ – Josephine Baker

‘Only the love that flows from the heart of Christ can heal. Only He in whom that love flows, even as the sap in the tree or the blood in the body, can restore the wounded soul.’ – Ellen G. White

‘If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.’ – William Shakespeare

‘Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘It is still breathtaking to me to watch people bring love, preciousness and kindness to their inner world, allowing the light of God to shine through their eyes so that the beauty of their soul can come forth.’ – Debbie Ford

‘Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else’s, and you’ve just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.’ – Ann Voskamp

‘The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn’t worth a damn.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

‘I genuinely enjoy sweating out my frustrations and living a healthier life. My workouts are not all about vanity. They are about clarity for my mind and soul.’ – Khloe Kardashian

‘I have often called attention to the fact that walking through the streets in the Middle Ages was a different experience from nowadays. Right and left, there were house facades that were built out of what the soul felt and thought. Every key, every lock, carried the imprint of the person who had made it.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.’ – Saint Ambrose

‘When I’m dancing, I’m not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.’ – Nikos Kazantzakis

‘The soul is both the most fragile and most resilient thing about you; a healthy soul is what holds you together when your world falls apart. Since you will carry your soul into eternity, it’s worth checking up on it at least as often as your teeth.’ – John Ortberg

‘We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘Look at another person while living; the soul is not visible, only the body which it animates. Therefore, merely because after death the soul is not visible is no demonstration that it does not still live.’ – Richard Jefferies

‘I’ve done songs with legends like De La Soul with Pete Rock. I’ve done songs with B.O.B. I’ve done songs with Big Kit.’ – Lecrae

‘School houses do not teach themselves – piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois

‘It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn’t dictate to her.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.’ – Quincy Jones

‘The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.’ – Aristotle

‘Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘Impropriety is the soul of wit.’ – W. Somerset Maugham

‘We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!’ – Victor Hugo

‘Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.’ – Maria Montessori

‘I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.’ – Edgar Allan Poe

‘To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.’ – Plato

‘Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‘Not Me,’ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‘Nature.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this.’ – Ellen G. White

‘That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.’ – Richard Jefferies

‘The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.’ – Wassily Kandinsky

‘Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘The Egyptian was the reverse of a theorist or mere thinker. He wanted to perceive with his senses how the soul took its way from the dead body into higher realms – he wanted to have this constructed before him.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘A swami may conceivably follow only the path of dry reasoning, of cold renunciation; but a yogi engages himself in a definite, step-by-step procedure by which the body and mind are disciplined, and the soul liberated.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda