Soul Quotes

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.
David Herbert Lawrence

Live, Nothing, Difficult

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
David Herbert Lawrence

Mind, Judge, Perfect

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
David Herbert Lawrence

Human, Thinks, Curious

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
Jeremy Taylor

Spirit, Language, Tongue

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
Paul Cezanne

Changes, Sugar, Basin

A puny body weakens the soul.
Paul Cezanne

Body, Weakens, Puny

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
Phillips Brooks

Music, Christmas, Heart

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
Victoria Woodhull

Dreams, Great, Society

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.
Rudolf Steiner

Life, Living, Whole

What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.
Eileen Caddy

Mean, May, Eyes

In these times, God's people must trust him for rest of body and soul.
David Wilkerson

Trust, God, Him

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.
Christopher Hitchens

Wish, Immortal, Worried

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.
Joseph Brodsky

Change, Political, Personal

The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.
William Cowper

Children, Done, Dogs

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Eugene V. Debs

Free, While, Class

'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself.
Jerry Saltz

Heart, Him, Night

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nor, Virtuous, Commands

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.
Catherine Deneuve

Art, Special, Young

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Moshe Dayan

Freedom, Oxygen

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.
Albert Pike

Truth, Mind, Justice

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.
Michael J. Fox

Life, Found, Richness

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.
Gustave Flaubert

Work, Words, Style

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
Wole Soyinka

Life, Great, Home

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Body, Fat, Fast

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
Anne Sexton

Hard, Down, Put

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
Alfred Austin

Nature, Gardening, Heart

When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.
Billy Bob Thornton

Good, Means, Shoes

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Goal, Himself, Loses

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
Charles Baudelaire

Life, Accept, Conditions

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