Soul Quotes

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde

Real, Cannot, Taken

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates

Evil, Words, Themselves

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
Swami Vivekananda

Greatest, Others, Impossible

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
Mark Twain

Keep, Careless, Dress

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
Kurt Cobain

Peace, Best, Hope

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu

Music, Universe, Heard

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Mahatma Gandhi

Nation, Culture, Hearts

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya Angelou

Giving, Found, Among

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Martin Luther

Music, God, Art

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius

Kindness, Perfect, Sincerity

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson

Hope, Words, Feathers

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
John Lennon

Life, Love, Peace

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
Mahalia Jackson

Faith, Health, Live

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Him, Liberty

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison

Important, Human, Sensitive

Soul Quote

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Love, Heart, Eyes

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Live, Give

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi

Children, Evil, Seen

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan Poe

Beauty, Whatever, Sensitive

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung

Gratitude, Human, Feelings

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
Wayne Dyer

Yourself, Rather, Body

Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare

Done, Joy, Lies

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
Eric Hoffer

Hope, Bankruptcy

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oscar Wilde

Nothing, Senses, Cure

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Mahatma Gandhi

Strength, Belief, Grows

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
William Shakespeare

Honor, Sin, Covet

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Charles Dickens

True, Someone, Person

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
Jim Morrison

Sex, Said, Body

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

Single, Friend, Two

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