Welcome to Soul Quotes, a place where the wisdom of the ages meets the depths of the human soul. Here, we delve into the profound and insightful words of poets, philosophers, and thinkers from across time and cultures, all in an exploration of the mysterious realm of the soul. These quotes are a glimpse into the inner workings of human consciousness, offering profound reflections on life, love, purpose, and the intricacies of our very essence.
Within these pages, you will find a collection of soul-stirring quotes that have the power to touch your heart, inspire your mind, and ignite your spirit. Whether you’re seeking inspiration for your daily life, looking to connect with the profound thoughts of great minds, or simply in search of words to encapsulate the essence of your own soul, you’ll discover a treasure trove of timeless wisdom here. Feel free to copy these quotes, place them on images, or enhance them with stylish fonts to create your own unique expressions of the soul. Let’s embark on a journey of self-discovery and enlightenment through the words that have resonated with the deepest parts of our being.
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. Muhammad Ali
The more important a call to action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it. But to yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be. Steven Pressfield
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Gilbert K. Chesterton
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. John Steinbeck
Beauty awakens the soul to act. Dante Alighieri
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. Maya Angelou
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. Oscar Wilde
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. Thomas Carlyle
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. Eleonora Duse
Brevity is the soul of wit. William Shakespeare
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. Epictetus
A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. Mahatma Gandhi
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. Mark Twain
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. George Washington
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation. Michael Jackson
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. Albert Einstein
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul. Minna Antrim
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. Ferdinand Foch
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. Confucius
Too much freedom can lead to the soul’s decay. Prince
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. Moshe Dayan
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. James Herriot
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. Frank Lloyd Wright
I’m doing things that feel good to my soul. I’ve had plenty opportunity to do other things, but it didn’t feel right, and it wasn’t right. And if it feels like work, then it’s work. But if you have that opportunity to do what you love, and you can make a living out of it, then that’s a blessing and I never take that for granted. Xzibit
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
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer. William R. Alger
The authentic self is the soul made visible. Sarah Ban Breathnach
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. Vincent Van Gogh
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. Luther Burbank
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. Saint Augustine
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
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. Booker T. Washington
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. Dorothy Dix
Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. Ezra Taft Benson
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it. Frances Wright
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
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. Will Durant
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere. Michel de Montaigne
Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. Bob Marley
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. Henry Ward Beecher
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Berthold Auerbach
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. Johann Sebastian Bach
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
I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments. Jim Morrison
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul. Martin Luther King, Jr.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. John Dalberg-Acton
What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real. Rabindranath Tagore
These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. Virginia Woolf
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. Joan Miro
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood. Josephine Baker
There’s nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it. Mickey Hart
Until one has loved an animal a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. Anatole France
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul. Wassily Kandinsky
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
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Marcus Aurelius
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body. Martha Graham
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. Jean-Paul Sartre
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires. Omar Khayyam
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. George Carlin
Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul. Thomas Merton
God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul. Ernest Renan
There’s nothing better than live music. It’s raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul. Dhani Jones
There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul. Clint Eastwood
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 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. Plato
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them. Charles Bukowski
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them. Mahalia Jackson
Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. Lady Bird Johnson
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul? Jesus Christ
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Kurt Vonnegut
To have another language is to possess a second soul. Charlemagne
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. Walt Whitman
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
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul. Dorothy Day
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed. Brian Harris
Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together. Steve Jobs
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
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
Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips. Percy Bysshe Shelley
The human body is the best picture of the human soul. Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. Jean Cocteau
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Edgar Allan Poe
Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers. Rumi
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
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Socrates
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing. Torquato Tasso
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot
It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it. John Burroughs
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. George Bernard Shaw
