Soul Quotes

You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

~ Wayne Newton

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

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

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

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

~ James Allen

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

~ Lord Acton

Right away I think of two books - 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Rebecca' - and of just sinking into them as a young reader. I think they must have appealed not just to my romantic adolescent soul, but I suppose there's also an appealing darkness in both of them.

~ Alice Mcdermott

I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.

~ Cameron Díaz

I believe everyone has a soul mate that they can spend the rest of their life together.

~ Ryan Lochte

It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

~ Rick Derringer

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

~ George Washington

I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. 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

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

~ Jim Harrison

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

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.

~ Azar Nafisi

Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.

~ Victor Hugo

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

~ John Ruskin

Every single soul is a poem.

~ Michael Franti

Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.

~ Edward Hirsch

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

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

~ Booker T. Washington

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

~ Thomas Fuller

It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.

~ Ellie Goulding

When anyone arouses my anger, I will immediately pray for them and regain my peace of soul.

~ Mother Angelica

It's that evil twin part of me that always comes out at the absolute wrong political moment, like a demon possessing my soul; it exhibits itself as an arrogance or disdain or obnoxiousness or meanness or anger or pettiness - all traits that are lethal in politics.

~ Peter Navarro

God's love-eye does not see essentially into the wicked rebellious apostate soul; neither also into the devil, but his anger-eye sees thereinto; that is, God, according to the property of the anger or fire of wrath, sees in the devil, and in the false soul.

~ Jakob Böhme

A home without books is a body without soul.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

~ Herbert Marcuse

I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.

~ Gary Allan

The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.

~ Menander

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

~ Hermann Hesse

If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.

~ Richard Lovelace

Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

~ Annie Dillard

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

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

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

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

~ Nelson Mandela

In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.

~ Walter Kirn