Soul Quotes

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

~ Thomas Merton

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

~ Democritus

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

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

~ Napoleon Hill

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

~ Robert Schumann

Business gives you a massive high. Doing a great deal, coming up with an inspirational solution... It's very addictive. But it doesn't last long. In isolation, it's a bit sterile. It doesn't reward the soul.

~ John Caudwell

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

~ Marsha Norman

Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.

~ Ira Glass

We spend most of our lives cutting down our ambitions because the world has told us to think small. Dreams express what your soul is telling you, so as crazy as your dream might seem - even to you - I don't care: You have to let that out.

~ Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'

~ Alan King

M*A*S*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

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

In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans' belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people.

~ Thurston Clarke

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

~ Oswald Spengler

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

~ Pat Buchanan

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

~ George Mcgovern

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

~ Douglas Macarthur

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

~ Edwin Markham

There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul.

~ Ameen Rihani

A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light.

~ Michael Leunig

Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.

~ Saint Basil

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

~ Jonathan Raban

Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.

~ Torquato Tasso

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

~ Ferdinand Foch

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

~ Saint Augustine

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

~ Barbara Hershey

The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

~ Rumi

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

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

~ Saint Teresa Of Avila

Love is the beauty of the soul.

~ Saint Augustine

Saturday morning, you knew what was cool by what was on 'Soul Train.'

~ Nick Cannon

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

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

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

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

Sports are in my soul. That's what drives me.

~ Craig Sager