Soul Quotes

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

~ William Blake

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

~ André Maurois

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

~ Jawaharlal Nehru

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

~ Douglas Horton

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

~ Robert A. Cook

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.

~ Gaston Bachelard

The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.

~ Catherine Hicks

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

~ Catharine Beecher

Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was dumb, but unless we reckon with that kind of emotional intelligence and his ability to kind of speak to the aspirations of the American people, the less liberals are going to be able to understand the soul of his appeal.

~ Rick Perlstein

That's always at the heart and soul of Disney's features, the feeling of a family values.

~ Tia Carrere

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

~ Freya Stark

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music.

~ Eric Whitacre

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

~ Ernest Dimnet

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

~ Timothy Leary

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

~ James Weldon Johnson

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

~ Maria Mitchell

Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body it's truly love.

~ Giada De Laurentiis

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

~ Dorothy Day

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

~ Plato

Food feeds both the body and soul - there are clear reasons to eat a balanced diet, but there are also reasons you cling to your mom's secret chicken noodle soup recipe when you're sick.

~ Michael Mina

I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.

~ Zach Johnson

The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.

~ Mariska Hargitay

If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.

~ Dolly Parton

Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.

~ Daniel Boulud

I think 'Soul Food' had the biggest impact on me because that's where I was really able to shine as an actress and because I also met my husband there, and that was a huge turning point in my personal life. So, that show will stick with me forever and ever and ever.

~ Nicole Ari Parker

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

~ Karl Marx

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

~ Émile Durkheim

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

~ Albert Einstein

Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

~ Josephine Baker

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

~ Eldridge Cleaver

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

~ George Santayana

Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God glorifies him.

~ Ellen G. White

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

~ Ellen G. White

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

~ Khalil Gibran