Soul Quotes

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

~ Stella Adler

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

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

~ Iris Murdoch

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

~ Plautus

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

~ Robert Blair

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

~ John Steinbeck

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

~ François Fénelon

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

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

~ Jaron Lanier

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

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

~ Ray Lewis

Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different view. I'm coming at soul from my own place.

~ Estelle

The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.

~ Orson Pratt

As and when I get into a relationship, I'll flaunt her to the world. I'm looking for a soul mate, and in any case, I'm not very much for casual dating. I'm such a simple guy away from this dating-shating business.

~ Suresh Raina

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

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

~ Aloe Blacc

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

~ Joseph Addison

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

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

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

~ Saint Teresa Of Avila

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

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

~ Owen Feltham

Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.

~ Jonathan Sacks

The soul's joy lies in doing.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

You lose or you win the fight - and anything in life - in your mind. I can look at how the person walks, how he speaks, his expressions. It's a wisdom. Eyes are the mirror of the soul. So you can read a lot.

~ Wladimir Klitschko

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

~ Marcus Aurelius

Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul.

~ Maximillian Degenerez

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

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

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

A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.

~ Mika Waltari

Love, peace and soul.

~ Don Cornelius

May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.

~ Yoweri Museveni

Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.

~ Sharon Stone

I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive.

~ Ingrid Betancourt

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

~ Isaac Of Nineveh

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