Soul Quotes

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
Michel de Montaigne

Life, Lost, Purpose

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
Charles Lamb

Beauty, True, Through

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
Douglas MacArthur

Life, Time, Done

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
Joseph Stalin

Human, Writer, Engineer

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.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Self, Through, Eyes

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
Michel de Montaigne

Impossible, Poverty, Goods

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
Rudyard Kipling

Mother, Whole, Body

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.
George W. Bush

Moments, Popularity, Sell

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.
Mickey Hart

Music, Nothing, Uplift

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Alexander Pope

Nature, God, Whole

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel Johnson

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison

Education, Sculpture, Marble

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach

Music, God, End

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

Seems, Geography, Controlled

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
Euripides

Tongue, Swore, Twas

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.
James A. Baldwin

Love, Against, Question

Impropriety is the soul of wit.
W. Somerset Maugham

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
Anatole France

Good, Among, Critic

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
Edward Dahlberg

Greatest, Ambition, Dead

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Strong, Revenge, Human

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
Marcel Proust

Dark, Trees, Forest

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham

Christian, Egoism, Regard

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.
Andre Maurois

Age, True, Evil

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

Love, Yourself, Acts

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
Mason Cooley

Comfort, Threat, Doctrine

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
Edward R. Murrow

America, Confuse, Loyal

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
Sophocles

Justice, Discovers, Intends

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Earth, Heaven, Grave

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.
Amanda Seyfried

Music, Sometimes, Acting

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

Happiness, Alone, Heart

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