Soul Quotes

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

~ Virginia Woolf

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

~ Henry Reed

You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them.

~ Gary Zukav

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

~ Arnold Bennett

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.

~ Kate Seredy

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

~ J. G. Ballard

I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.

~ Howard Schultz

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

~ Samuel Hoffenstein

Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

~ John Templeton

There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it's writing a check or digging a well.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

~ Theodore Parker

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

~ Martha Beck

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

~ Ramakrishna

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

~ Michel De Montaigne

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

~ Virginia Woolf

When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy - some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

~ Gina Prince-Bythewood

Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

The foundation of the house of civil rights is in the voices of all the great civil rights leaders and the soul of every person who heard them. It's in the hands of every person who folded a leaflet for change, and it's in the courage of every person who changed.

~ Cheryl Mills

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

~ Sigmund Freud

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

~ Denis Diderot

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

~ Lucretius

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

~ Albert Einstein

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

~ Paul Stanley

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

~ John B. S. Haldane

For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, 'Where's your home?' I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.

~ Pico Iyer

All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.

~ O. R. Melling

Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.

~ Bob Hayes

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

~ Emma Goldman

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

~ Martin Luther King

Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation.

~ Mariella Frostrup

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

~ Antonio Banderas

It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all I wanted to do was be there. I wanted to be part of that romance or that fantasy or be that warrior or that struggling soul who finally makes it good.

~ Gerard Butler

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

~ Louise Brooks

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

~ George Santayana

Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.

~ David O. Mckay

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

~ Vladimir Putin

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

~ John Donne