Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
Saint Augustine

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
Langston Hughes

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

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
Voltaire

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Voltaire

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
William Blake

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
William Blake

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
John Calvin

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Marcus Aurelius

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
Meister Eckhart

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
Meister Eckhart

The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.
T. S. Eliot

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
Frederick Douglass