Quotes on soul

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

Author: Lord Acton

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

Author: Ansel Adams

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.

Author: Akhenaton

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.

Author: William Alger

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

Author: William Alger

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

Author: Henri Amiel

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

Author: Henri Amiel

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.

Author: Tori Amos

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

Author: Trey Anastasio

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.

Author: Marian Anderson

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

Author: Maya Angelou

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

Author: Minna Antrim

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.

Author: Guillaume Apollinaire

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

Author: Dario Argento

I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

Author: Dario Argento

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.

Author: Aristotle

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Author: Aristotle

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Author: Aristotle

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Author: Aristotle

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Author: Aristotle

There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.

Author: Rosanna Arquette

My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.

Author: Francis Asbury

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.

Author: Mary Astell

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.

Author: Saint Augustine

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.

Author: Saint Augustine

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

Author: Saint Augustine

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Author: Alfred Austin

I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me.

Author: Eric Avery

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

Author: Saint Avila

Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.

Author: Roy Ayers

I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.

Author: Roy Ayers

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

Author: Nnamdi Azikiwe

In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.

Author: Edward Bach

To the timid soul, nothing is possible.

Author: John Bach

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.

Author: Gaston Bachelard

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

Author: Gaston Bachelard

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Author: Francis Bacon

I grew up listening to old soul.

Author: Erykah Badu

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.

Author: J. Ballard

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

Author: M. Ballard

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Author: Honore Balzac

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

Author: Brigitte Bardot

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

Author: Rona Barrett

I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.

Author: Pierre Bayle

We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.

Author: Victoria Beckham

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

Author: Henry Beecher

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

Author: Henry Beecher

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

Author: Max Beerbohm

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Author: Aphra Behn

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

Author: Hilaire Belloc

An actor works with their soul and their thought.

Author: Monica Bellucci

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

Author: Robert Benchley

PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

Author: Hans Bender

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

Author: Annette Bening

I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.

Author: Annette Bening

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

Author: Ezra Benson

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.

Author: Sarah Bernhardt

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

Author: Mary Bethune

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.

Author: Vinoba Bhave

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

Author: Theodore Bikel

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

Author: William Blake

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.

Author: Allan Bloom

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

Author: Claire Bloom

Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.

Author: Orlando Bloom

I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.

Author: Lionel Blue

After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.

Author: Suzy Bogguss

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.

Author: W. Bois

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

Author: Robert Bolt

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

Author: Daniel Boone

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

Author: John Booth

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.

Author: William Booth

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Author: Christian Bovee

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

Author: Christian Bovee

There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved.

Author: Chris Brasher

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

Author: Sarah Breathnach

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

Author: Charlotte Bronte

The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.

Author: Arthur Brooks

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.

Author: Phillips Brooks

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.

Author: Heywood Broun

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

Author: Robert Browning

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

Author: Jeff Buckley

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Author: Charles Bukowski

I want to be a soul singer.

Author: Solomon Burke

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

Author: George Bush

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.

Author: Lord Byron

What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.

Author: Eileen Caddy

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

Author: Eileen Caddy

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

Author: Taylor Caldwell

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

Author: Taylor Caldwell

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.

Author: Taylor Caldwell

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

Author: John Calvin

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.

Author: Karel Capek

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

Author: George Carlin

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

Author: Thomas Carlyle

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

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.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

Author: John Carmack

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.

Author: George Carman

Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it.

Author: Edward Carpenter

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

Author: Emily Carr

I've always been a big fan of the American soul sound.

Author: Jose Carreras

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Author: Angela Carter

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

Author: Jimmy Carter

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

Author: Catherine Catherine II

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

Author: Paul Cezanne

A puny body weakens the soul.

Author: Paul Cezanne

Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.

Author: Richard Chamberlain

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.

Author: Nicolas Chamfort

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

Author: Adelbert Chamisso

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

Author: Edwin Chapin

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

Author: Edwin Chapin

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

Author: Charlemagne

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.

Author: Ray Charles

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

My soul is not for sale.

Author: Caryl Chessman

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

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

Author: Lydia Child

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.

Author: Kate Chopin

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

Author: Jesus Christ

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.

Author: Agatha Christie

People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

Author: Madonna Ciccone

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

Author: Marcus Cicero

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

Author: Marcus Cicero

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.

Author: Marcus Cicero

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.

Author: Adam Clarke

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

Author: Glenn Close

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Author: Samuel Coleridge

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

Author: Samuel Coleridge

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

Author: Confucius

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

Author: Joseph Conrad

Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.

Author: Mason Cooley

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

Author: Mason Cooley

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

Author: Mason Cooley

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

Author: Ezra Cornell

The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.

Author: William Cowper

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

Author: Ralph Cram

Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates can ever sever them apart.

Author: Harry Crosby

I couldn't do an acting job just to be working. It really had to have some soul to it.

Author: Marcia Cross

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

Author: Billy Crystal

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

Author: Edward Dahlberg

I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.

Author: Dick Dale

After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

Author: John Darby

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

Author: John Darby

Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.

Author: Dorothy Davis

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

Author: Moshe Dayan

Embrace the unique melody of your soul, for in the symphony of life, it is your authenticity that harmonizes the world.

Author: Cassandra Bell