Soul Quotes

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Simone Weil

Important, Human, Perhaps

The authentic self is the soul made visible.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Self, Authentic, Visible

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
George Eliot

Belief, Accepting, Denying

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
Jim Elliot

God, Law, Perfect

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.
Michel de Montaigne

Others, Once, Senses

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
Jimmy Carter

Human, Sense, Rights

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

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Francis Bacon

Patience, Possession

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
Guru Nanak

Alone, Him, Solitude

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
Blaise Pascal

Great, Feeling, Lost

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
Ellen DeGeneres

Truth, Live, Person

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler

Life, Art, Down

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

Great, Heart, Feeling

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Francis Bacon

Life, Good, Art

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Best, Human, Body

Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.
Gilbert Murray

Enemy, Nothing, Body

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
George Santayana

Body, Voice, Interests

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Thomas Fuller

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Actually, Individual, Nor

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
Michel de Montaigne

Courage, Legs, Stability

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.
David Herbert Lawrence

Love, Good, Through

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
Heraclitus

Heart, Hard, Whatever

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman

Dreams, Book, Writing

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
Janis Joplin

Black, Why, Themselves

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
William Butler Yeats

Hands, Unless, Sing

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John Ruskin

Religion, Poetry, Greatest

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
Blaise Pascal

Nature, Time, Nothing

Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
Torquato Tasso

Love, Knew, Missing

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
Michel de Montaigne

Life, Love, Real

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