Quotes about the soul are phrases or statements that talk about the inner essence of a person. They express thoughts and ideas about the spiritual or emotional aspect of human beings. These quotes often focus on the immaterial part of a person that defines who they truly are.
The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization. — Otto Rank
A soul connection is a resonance between two people who respond to the essential beauty of each other's individual natures, behind their facades, and who connect on this deeper level. — John Welwood
The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles. — Rumi
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. — C. S. Lewis
The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon. — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand. — Rumi
The soul creates, the mind reacts. The soul understands what the mind cannot conceive. — Neale Donald Walsch
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened. — Anatole France
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul. — Langston Hughes
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. — Walt Whitman
Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you. — Marsha Norman
Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul. — Douglas MacArthur
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
Happy Soul Quotes
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. — Marcel Proust
On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . . — Mother Teresa
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. — Jorge Luis Borges
Some souls just understand each other upon meeting.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. — Democritus
Oh what a happy soul am I although I cannot see, I am resolved that in this world contented I shall be. How many blessings I enjoy that other people don't. To weep and sigh, because I'm blind? I cannot and I won't. — Fanny Crosby
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life. — Leo Tolstoy
Laughter is the language of the soul. — Pablo Neruda
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
Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn. — Kalidasa
My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy. — Juliette Gordon Low
Old Soul Quotes
If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will go away. — Neem Karoli Baba
Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity. — H. P. Blavatsky
Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth. — Winona LaDuke
It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through the soul and cleanses the heart.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. — Samuel Ullman
A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul — Tupac Shakur
When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards. — Anandamayi Ma
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words. — Victor Hugo
Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world. — Jack Hyles
The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you. — Johnny Appleseed
The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too. — Bobby Jones
Pure Soul Quotes
The soul will never become pious and purified except through undergoing afflictions. It is the same as gold that can never be pure except after removing all the base metals in it. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other. — Dante Alighieri
My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar. — Rumi
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. — B.K.S. Iyengar
The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly — Kahlil Gibran
I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew. — Hafez
Beauty isn't about having a pretty face. It's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart and a pretty soul.
Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure. — Erykah Badu
In the Scriptures be the fat pastures of the soul; therein is no venomous meat, no unwholesome thing; they be the very dainty and pure feeding. He that is ignorant, shall find there what he should learn. — Thomas Cranmer
You can’t make yourself closer to God by hating someone else, whether you believe it’s righteous anger or not. The relationship between Soul—which is you—and God is one of love. And where there’s pure love, there is no room for anger of any kind. — Harold Klemp
Broken Soul Quotes
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky — William P. Young
Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul. — Rachel Naomi Remen
Whatever is good for you soul, do that.
I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute! — Frederick Douglass
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. — Max Ehrmann
A broken soul doesn’t invest in boundaries because the world has crossed them, without mercy. — Shannon Alder
Just as the water reflects the stars and the moon, the body reflects the mind and soul.
There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken. — Napoleon Bonaparte
In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. — Max Ehrmann
The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic. — Willa Cather
Good Soul Quotes
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty. — Juliette Drouet
You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul. — Mahatma Gandhi
Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.
My body's feeling sore, but my soul is feeling pretty good. — Seth Rollins
Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket. — Gino Bartali
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls. — John Coltrane
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. — Thomas Keller
When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them. — Saint John Chrysostom
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. — Albert Einstein
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is. — Blaise Pascal
My Soul Quotes
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' — Sigmund Freud
Look inside my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich. Look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exists. — Kendrick Lamar
If we are irritated, by every rub, how will we be polished?
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. — Paramahansa Yogananda
She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through. — Virginia Woolf
Come hell or high water you will never take me back to the place I was before. I have been through too much to let life whoop me again. My faith is stronger than it's ever been, my mind is more tenacious than it's ever been, my soul is more absolute. — T. D. Jakes
So plant your own gardens and decorate your soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul. — Charles Bukowski
I LOVE my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind.
Just in case...
HEART might stop. MIND can forget.
I Love them with my Soul.
SOUL never stops or forgets. — Rumi
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. — Judy Garland
I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved. — Shana Abe
Your Soul Quotes
Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you've never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. — Bob Marley
Your love
Should never be offered to the mouth of a
Stranger,
Only to someone
Who has the valor and daring
To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife
Then weave them into a blanket
To protect you. — Hafez
You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. — Bob Marley
Photography is about capturing souls, not smiles.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. — Swami Vivekananda
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you. — Woody Hayes
It is not your environment, it is you- the quality of your mind, the integrity of your soul and the determination of your will that will decide your future and shape your life. — Benjamin E. Mays
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. — Walt Whitman
Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction. — John of the Cross
If you want to give birth to your true self, you are going to have to dig deep down into that body of yours and let your soul howl. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need to go. — Gabrielle Roth
Beautiful Soul Quotes
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. — Kahlil Gibran
It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold. — Thomas Cole
Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul. — Unknown Author
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years. — Audrey Hepburn
You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?' — Morgan Freeman
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul. — Alice Walker
Soul Beauty Quotes
Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve. — Agnes of Rome
You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul. — Gabriela Mistral
We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness. — Rodney Dangerfield
The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army. . . . The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide. — Napoleon Bonaparte
True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. — Audrey Hepburn
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. — Rumi
Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another. — Kahlil Gibran
The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony. — Mary Baker Eddy
Music Soul Quotes
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Improve the World Through Music. — Plato
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. — Berthold Auerbach
We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music. — Albert Einstein
The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment — Pythagoras
What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music. — Ludwig van Beethoven
The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are. — Ludwig van Beethoven
We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to be the commons denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul. — Willie Nelson
A guitar is more than just a sound box... it is part of your soul. — Manuel Velazquez
Beloved, if any unholiness exists in the nature, it is not there by the consent of the Spirit of God. If unholiness is in your life it is because your soul is giving consent to it, and you are retaining it. Let it go. Cast it out and let God have His way in your life. — John G. Lake
Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist; shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and spirit, your heaven and hell, until you land in the moment of sweet surrender; when you, as a dancer, disappear into the dance. — Gabrielle Roth
In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds. — John of the Cross
We need spirited, energetic and strong young people whose hearts are filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism; whose souls are full of ambition, aspiration and vigor and have great goals, rising and aspiring to reach them until they eventually arrive at their destination. — Hassan al-Banna
Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul? — Saint Francis de Sales
At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us. — Black Elk
The Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, is God's "I Will" to every seeker for full salvation of spirit, soul and body. — Kenneth E. Hagin
Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is. — Amy Carmichael
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the universe with the power of his spirit . . . I do not climb so high. A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man. — Frederic Chopin
Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven. — Ephrem the Syrian
Soul Power Quotes
Fear of the devil is nonsense. Fear of demons is foolish. The Spirit of God anointing the Christian heart makes the soul impregnable to the powers of darkness. — John G. Lake
One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon. — Nelson Mandela
Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter. — Harold S. Kushner
The love of talk distracts all the powers of our soul from God, and fills them with earthly objects and impressions, like a vessel of water that cannot be settled while you are continualy stirring the earthly particles from the bottom. — Elizabeth Ann Seton
You are a powerful, unlimited and eternal soul who is here to enjoy the experience of creativity and contribute to humanity's evolution. — Timothy Leary
Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations. — Joseph Pulitzer
Colour is a power which directly influences the soul. — Wassily Kandinsky
Soul Life Quotes
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. — Pablo Picasso
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. — Marie Curie
The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is God. — Anthony of Padua
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds. — Louisa May Alcott
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed. — Hudson Taylor
The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love, the nearer we are to those who belong to Him. — Elizabeth Ann Seton
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. — Sivananda
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man — Ernest Shackleton
You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever! — Huey Newton
Human Soul Quotes
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained. — W. E. B. Du Bois
Human beings are members of a whole,
In creation of one essence and soul.
If one member is afflicted with pain,
Other members uneasy will remain.
If you have no sympathy for human pain,
The name of human you cannot retain. — Saadi Shirazi
The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies. — Sri Aurobindo
Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. — John Muir
Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul. — Friedrich Frobel
Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual. — Al-Ghazali
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. — Mary Mcleod Bethune
Men have said that the cross of Christ was not a heroic thing, but I want to tell you that the cross of Jesus Christ has put more heroism in the souls of men than any other event in human history. — John G. Lake
Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul. — Pythagoras
Soul Force Quotes
By your own soul, learn to live. If some men force you, take no heed. If some men hate you, have no care. Sing your song, dream your dreams Hope your hopes, and pray your prayers. — Bo Schembechler
Each soul in entering the material experience does so for those purposes of advancement towards that awareness of being fully conscious of the oneness with the Creative Forces. — Edgar Cayce
The Immaculate alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. She seeks souls that will consecrate themselves entirely to her, that will become in her hands forceful instruments for the defeat of Satan and the spread of God's kingdom. — Maximilian Kolbe
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. — Tom Robbins
Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men. — T. S. Eliot
General Otis is proclaimed American Military Governor of the Philippines and I protest a thousand times and with all the force in my soul against such pretension. — Emilio Aguinaldo
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. — Thomas Carlyle
The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul. — Maxim Gorky
Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul. — Flannery O'Connor
In Conclusion
Soul quotes can provide insight into the depths of human emotions and the significance of self-discovery. They can emphasize the importance of nourishing the soul and finding inner peace. These quotes often speak to the idea that the soul is eternal and transcends the physical realm. They encourage individuals to connect with their inner selves and seek meaning beyond material possessions. Soul quotes remind us to nurture our inner selves and find solace in the essence of our being.
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