Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.
~By Pindar ~
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
~By Woody Hayes ~
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
~By Theodore Parker ~
Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.
~By George Ripley ~
The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.
~By Smokey Robinson ~
A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
~By Mika Waltari ~
I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.
~By Michelle Shocked ~
My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.
~By Solomon Burke ~
It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.
~By Josef Albers ~
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
~By W. E. B. Du Bois ~
I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.
~By Lou Rawls ~
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
~By Thomas Merton ~
I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul, a guy who is destined for something a lot larger than he ever expected.
~By Milo Ventimiglia ~
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
~By Ansel Adams ~
Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.
~By Melody Beattie ~
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
~By Edwin Markham ~
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
~By John Donne ~
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
~By Mary Renault ~
My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
~By Karl Shapiro ~
Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.
~By Gilbert Murray ~
There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
~By Adlai Stevenson ~
The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.
~By Georg Hermes ~
What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.
~By Mickey Hart ~
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.
~By Christopher Love ~
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
~By W. E. B. Du Bois ~
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
~By Colin Hay ~
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.
~By Knute Nelson ~
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
~By Claudia Johnson ~
To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.
~By Jacky Ickx ~
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
~By John McLaughlin ~
No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
~By Al Gore ~
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.
~By Billy Bob Thornton ~
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
~By Irving Layton ~
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.
~By James M. Baldwin ~
With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.
~By Francis Arinze ~
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
~By George Washington ~
It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.
~By Rick Derringer ~
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
~By Minna Antrim ~
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
~By Denis Diderot ~
The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.
~By Anya Seton ~
Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.
~By George Carman ~
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.
~By Julia Phillips ~
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.
~By Dario Argento ~
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
I hosted Soul train but I listen to everything.
~By Shemar Moore ~
Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.
~By Alberta Hunter ~
Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
~By Aristotle ~
I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
~By Heywood Broun ~
May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
~By Yoweri Museveni ~
Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
~By Muriel Spark ~
In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.
~By Eyvind Johnson ~
The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
~By W. H. Murray ~
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
~By Plato ~
Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.
~By William Ames ~
The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
~By Albert Pike ~
Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.
~By Michael Shermer ~
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
~By Coretta Scott King ~
A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
~By Harriet Martineau ~
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
~By Ernest Dimnet ~
We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
~By Oswald Chambers ~
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
~By George Santayana ~
In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.
~By Poppy Z. Brite ~
Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
~By James Hillman ~
The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
~By Patricia Hewitt ~
With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died.
~By Mercedes McCambridge ~
Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
I am most proud that I stayed true to the music of my soul.
~By Wynonna Judd ~
To be at one with God is to be at peace... peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one's own soul.
~By Ralph W. Trine ~
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
~By Alexander Cockburn ~
When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
~By Gerard De Nerval ~
I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back.
~By Richard M. Daley ~
The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
I hate this wretched willow soul of mine, patiently enduring, plaited or twisted by other hands.
~By Karin Boye ~
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
~By Christopher Columbus ~
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