She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.
~By Jeff Buckley ~
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
~By Berthold Auerbach ~
There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.
~By Max Frisch ~
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
~By Peter De Vries ~
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.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
My soul is fine, thanks.
~By Juliana Hatfield ~
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
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 ~
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
~By Epictetus ~
Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that's why everybody loved him so much.
~By Joe Rogan ~
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
~By Joseph Addison ~
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
~By Arnold Bennett ~
It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
~By Freddie Mercury ~
I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all.
~By Hazrat Inayat Khan ~
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
~By Dale Turner ~
We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.
~By Thomas R. Kelly ~
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
~By Anne Frank ~
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
~By Richard Bach ~
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
~By Robert Blair ~
A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
~By Eileen Caddy ~
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 ~
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
~By Anne Sophie Swetchine ~
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?
~By Robert A. Cook ~
Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls.
~By James L. Buckley ~
You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
~By St. Jerome ~
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
~By George Carlin ~
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
~By Rebecca West ~
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
~By Neil Armstrong ~
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
~By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~
Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
~By Thomas Moore ~
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
~By Alex Karras ~
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.
~By Joan Jett ~
And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro race, accepting their ways.
~By Warren Jeffs ~
Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
~By Albert Einstein ~
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
~By Mother Teresa ~
I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul.
~By Renny Harlin ~
Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
~By Victor Hugo ~
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
~By Isaac Mayer Wise ~
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 ~
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
~By Olive Schreiner ~
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.
~By Johann Arndt ~
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
~By Henry Fielding ~
Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.
~By Glenn Close ~
Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.
~By Lisa Bonet ~
I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.
~By Dario Argento ~
I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
~By Thomas Merton ~
Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.
~By Hank Ballard ~
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
~By Sivananda ~
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 ~
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.
~By Sri Chinmoy ~
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
~By Plato ~
Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
I grew up listening to old soul.
~By Erykah Badu ~
When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.
~By Julia Margaret Cameron ~
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.
~By Dorothy Salisbury Davis ~
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
~By Garrett Fort ~
I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
~By M. Russell Ballard ~
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
~By Victor Hugo ~
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.
~By Zach Wamp ~
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.
~By Mary Chapin Carpenter ~
It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.
~By Guillaume Apollinaire ~
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
~By Edward R. Murrow ~
If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
~By Hannah More ~
A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
~By Mika Waltari ~
Your face makes my soul want to eat chocolate pudding!
~By Andy Milonakis ~
Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.
~By Emil Nolde ~
What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.
~By Ray Charles ~
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
In these times, God's people must trust him for rest of body and soul.
~By David Wilkerson ~
The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death.
~By William Alexander ~
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.
~By Richard Chamberlain ~
The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars.
~By Vanessa Brown ~
A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
~By Sam Keen ~
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