Soul Quotes

A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

An act of kindness is uplifting to the soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He enters God's theater free; he sees the sky, space, the stars, the flowers, the children, the humanity in which he suffers, the creation in which he shines. He looks at humanity so much that he sees the soul, he looks at creation so much that he sees God. He dreams, he feels that he is great; he dreams some more, and he feels that he is tender. From the egotism of the suffering man, he passes to the compassion of the contemplating man. A wonderful feeling springs up within him, forgetfulness of self, and pity for all. In thinking of the countless enjoyments nature offers, gives, and gives lavishly to open souls and refuses to closed souls, he, a millionaire of intelligence, comes to grieve for the millionaires of money. All hatred leaves his heart as all light enters his mind. And is he unhappy? No. The poverty of a young man is never miserable.

~ Victor Hugo

Don’t try to please others at the expense of your values and your integrity. At the end of the day, you want to like yourself when you look in a mirror.

~ Millen Livis

A soul without kindness is like a garden without plants and flowers.

~ Debasish Mridha

A person's Acts of #Kindness far outlives their lifespan,for they leave behind a true, meaningful legacy.

~ Michael Levy

Between the wrinkles of age and her features which indicated a number of years resided a beauty that was touching and awakened trust. Since by now I had observed many faces quite closely in order to sketch them, I fully realized that it was more than mere beauty, it was the soul which shone through so kindly and self-contained, which had such a striking effect on whoever came into contact with her.

~ Adalbert Stifter

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

~ Paulo Coelho

Kind words are sweet to the soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I’m a Texas girl, with a California soul.

~ Crystal Woods

But always when I was without a book, my soul would at once become disturbed, and my thoughts wandered. As I read, I began to call them together again and, as it were, laid a bait for my soul

~ Teresa Of Ávila

A wonderful privilege it was to be thus admitted into the soul of a man of genius, to be allowed to share the ecstasies and the agonies of his inmost life.

~ Upton Sinclair

She bent and placed a single daisy upon the grave. A simple white daisy. The plainest of flowers, perhaps the purest, Elspeth thought. It had cost next to nothing at all, and perhaps that was the point. She wasn’t being cheap. She was being symbolic. In her mind, Andrea deserved only the unstained purity of the simplest of daisies, a daisy that was unsoiled by a wealth that couldn’t find the money to have claimed her soul.

~ J.r. Tompkins

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

~ Charles Bukowski

For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean that awful loneliness of spirit that is the ultimate tragedy of life. When you've got to that, really reached it, without hope, without escape, you die. You just can't bear it, and you die.

~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

He’s like a hero come back from thewar, a poor maimed bastard living out the reality of his dreams.Wherever he sits himself the chair collapses; whatever door heenters the room is empty: whatever he puts in his mouth leaves abad taste. Everything is just the same as it was before; theelements are unchanged, the dream is no different than the reality.Only, between the time he went to sleep and the time he woke up,his body was stolen.

~ Henry Miller

The condition of our soul is usually the source of many sicknesses.

~ Suzy Kassem

The prophecy Revelations tells three stories1) God's plan to use mankind to transform a darker spirit and soul into light2) To use the Law of Creation and its processes to facilitate this plan3) To guide the collective spirit and consciousness of mankind from dark to light and then then God. As we grow the spirit of business systems that were created over the past several thousand of years will evolve too.

~ Phoenix

i have known yousince the beginningof timethe one i have loved alwaysin spirit.only just discoveredin person.

~ Sanober Khan

The idea in our culture of body solely as sculpture is wrong. Body is not marble. That is not its purpose. Its purpose is to protect, contain, support and fire the spirit and soul within it, to be a repository for memory, to fill us with feeling - that is the supreme psychic nourishment. It is to lift us and propel us, to fill us with feeling to prove that we exist, that we are here, to give us grounding, heft, weight. It is wrong to think of it as a place we leave in order to soar to the spirit. The body is the launcher of those experiences. Without body there would be no sensations of crossing thresholds, there would be no sense of lifting, no sense of height, weightlessness. All that comes from the body. The body is the rocket launcher. In its nose capsule, the soul looks out the window into the mysterious starry night and is dazzled.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Identical twins do not possess identical souls.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

When what one does, reps, or 'spits', repetitively, is foul or beastly - one summons spiritual undertakers to dine on fleshly parasites. In various forms, nature's law purges all that becomes wasteful. Change your game, or the game will change you.

~ T.f. Hodge

The Spirit, and your soul are not the same things. The Spirit is God - the source. Your soul is God's imagination - the subject.

~ T.f. Hodge

I'm not here to win the rat race of materialism. I am here to experience the depths of my soul in form.

~ Erin Fall Haskell

Submission is not in the bowing of heads or knees but in the humbling of your whole being (spirit, soul and body)

~ Ikechukwu Izuakor

To access your subconscious, is to access your 'higher-self.

~ Kevin Michel

The answers to your problems lie all around you. The keys to your self-discovery are waiting to be found in each sunset, each pair of eyes, each breath of fresh air. Listen to the symphony of life and you will hear yourself. Find the beauty of nature and you have found your soul.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

When words are too heavy for the mouth, the soul weeps in agony

~ Ikechukwu Izuakor

You are a cosmic traveler; your body is temporary, but its essence is eternal...

~ Dave Zebian

I have come to differentiate not at all between what is spiritual and the rest of life. There is only Life, all of it is good and the more I am aware of this in every moment, the more my spirit comes alive.

~ Jacob Nordby

True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one’s body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person.

~ Jim George

The waves of love roll throughout the Universe, and overflow in our hearts..Everything is ONE!

~ Dave Zebian

Souls’ may be subjugated and regulated – for a time – but never terminated. They live!

~ T.f. Hodge

The power of such a mountain is so great and yet so subtle that, without compulsion, people are drawn to it from near and far, as if by the force of some invisible magnet…this worshipful or religious attitude is not impressed by scientific facts, like figures of altitude, which are foremost in the mind of modern man. Nor is it motivated by the urge to ‘conquer’ the mountain.

~ Anagarika Govinda

It is as if I have entered what the Tibetans call the Bardo-literally, between-two-existences- a dreamlike hallucination that precedes reincarnation, not necessarily in human form…In case I should need them, instructions for passage through the Bardo are contained in the Tibetan book of the dead- a guide for the living since it teaches that a man’s last thoughts will determine the quality of his reincarnation.

~ Peter Matthiessen

When the organization called soul is free, moving and operative, initial as well as terminal, it is spirit. Qualities are both static, substantial, and transitive. Spirit quickens; it is not only alive, but spirit gives life. Animals are spirited, but man is a living spirit. He lives in his works and his works do follow him. Soul is form, spirit informs. It is the moving function of that of which soul is the substance. Perhaps the words soul and spirit are so heavily laden with traditional mythology and sophisticated doctrine that they must be surrendered; it may be impossible to recover for them in science and philosophy the realities designated in idiomatic speech. But the realities are there, by whatever names they be called.

~ John Dewey

Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.

~ Eve Glicksman

The child will leave the nest. The best paint job will crack. The best play will become boring. The best work will grow tedious. The best art will lose meaning. The greatest creation will decay. Behind all this, lies my true self.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

In love, there is no need to choose between self and other, because self is other.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

When there is no tension between the inner beingness and that which is being expressed, there is grace.

~ Donna Goddard