In this post, you will find great Soul Quotes from famous people, such as Orison Swett Marden, Marie Antoinette, D. H. Lawrence, Lauren Jauregui, Alicia Keys. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
Soul music is timeless.
Music is an outburst of the soul.
Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it’s even more than that – Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody – or your soul.
One motivation for the ‘Soul Train’ awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows.
I think there’s a part when you sign your soul to the devil and start working in Los Angeles that you also sign away that you could be a human being in anyone’s eye. You’re like a robot!
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier‘s occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
Reason is our soul’s left hand, faith her right.
All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter – in the eye.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
I am a woman. I think I have the spirit, the intelligence, and – dare I say – the soul of a woman.
I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don’t have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?
May my soul bloom in love for all existence.
Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
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.
The Lord saved my soul.
Soul mate and rain are perfect combination.
Every single soul is a poem.
Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.
I have always grappled with the fact that the truth cannot be packaged into one soul or one mind alone. It is something fragmented: there is so much to it; the truth is varied and scattered across the world.
A short film is not a shortened feature film. It has a soul of its own.
Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.
I tell you, gospel music is very uplifting. It’s great. It’s just a lot of fun to write, and it’s wonderful for the heart, soul, mind, and spirit. It’s just great.
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
The authentic self is the soul made visible.
Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
The Beatles, they brought a whole new dimension to pop music. Of course, the psychedelic period is much more interesting to me, starting with ‘Rubber Soul’ and on to the ‘White Album.’ Great, great records. I was such a Beatles fan. I was very sad when they broke up.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all I wanted to do was be there. I wanted to be part of that romance or that fantasy or be that warrior or that struggling soul who finally makes it good.
You put your heart and soul into something, and you really hope that people love it as much as you do.
There’s a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don’t look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist’s soul, my actor’s soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
There is a brief moment when all there is in a man’s mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.
Work is therapy for the soul.
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don’t know in your own soul.
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
I hope with all my heart and soul that every young man who receives the priesthood will honor that priesthood and be true to the trust which is conveyed when it is conferred. May each of us who holds the priesthood of God know what he believes.
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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.
It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
I’ve always been a little bit cautious about what projects I step into. I don’t mean to be dramatic, but I feel that every single thing you do in life, you give a piece of your soul, and I want to be responsible with that.
Silence is refreshment for the soul.
In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul.
Music is the soul of language.
Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.
I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
I’m not a rich person financially, but I am in mind and soul. I have so much energy and strength, and I can do a lot of things that make me, and I think my fans, quite happy. When everything’s gone, music alone shall live on.
Alternative R&B is in my soul. It’s not going anywhere.
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.
Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it’s sparse. There’s nothing that’s pretentious or planned. It’s just so gutsy.
All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history.
I believe in finding a soul mate. I’ve always been in monogamous relationships. I would never want to be in an open one. It’d be too awful. Monogamy can be hard work for some people. I don’t think it applies to everybody, and I don’t think a lot of people can do it.
Focus on you – your soul, spirit, blessing people with who you are, and following your heart’s passions.
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
Above all else, deep in my soul, I’m a tough Irishwoman.
I’m a documentary photographer. That’s what I’ve always wanted to be; that’s where my heart and soul is.
We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
In these times, God’s people must trust him for rest of body and soul.
As an artist myself, I know what it’s like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.
The destiny of man is in his own soul.
It doesn’t surprise me that men in their twenties and thirties are often looking for a much older woman. What is the problem with a man of 30 being with a woman of 50? It is a matter of energy and the soul, not a matter of age of the body.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal.
There is a saying, ‘Eyes are the windows to the soul.’ It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don’t know, I’d like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color.
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, ‘Where’s your home?’ I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.
Finding your soul begins by discovering our ability to listen! Alternatively, by sharing a smile, a laugh and just by being human to everyone – from friends, colleagues, family, and especially strangers, including those who are not from the same station in life as you.
I know that I’m just a spirit. I’m just a soul living a human experience. You come here for a purpose. So, once you acknowledge that and acknowledge that God put you here for a reason, I feel like you gotta fulfill that as much as possible.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
I am not interested in anything that doesn’t have a genuine heart to it. You’ve got to have soul in the hole. If that isn’t there, I don’t see the point.
I don’t want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don’t have much heart. I’m looking for things that have soul.
You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you’re lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I’m blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
By the life we live through the grace of Christ, the character is formed. The original loveliness begins to be restored to the soul. The attributes of the character of Christ are imparted, and the image of the Divine begins to shine forth.
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
I’m just going to go live life. I’m going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.
Everybody’s going to approach a character differently, depending upon what they bring to it on their own intellectual level or their feelings from their heart and soul.
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has made an impact on my life and made me who I am. Detroit has an unmistakable soul – nobody can duplicate the soul we bring to the game. From Motown to J Dilla to Eminem to anything.
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.
The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of ‘border,’ and that is what I have experienced.
Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That’s basically what we do.
Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!
The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.
I know my soul is beautiful; I know I’m a good person. And that will never change for me.
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.
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
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.
Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind’s disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
There’s no separation between electronic music and acoustic music. It’s all one thing. Each song has its own heartbeat. Each song has its own soul.
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.
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel’s face.
I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what’s important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it’s through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man.
The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.
It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.
The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
Music is a language in itself and the songs have their own soul, every song has its soul.
The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it’s a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.
I do not believe that we should create an atheist culture – I think it leads to debauchery, and I think it leads to a spiritual poverty within the soul.
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
I just feel not many people hear that you should feel good inside and feel happy within your soul, instead of needing to look a certain way, so I always try and talk to people about that.
The face is the soul of the body.
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
People have this perception of soul music of somebody shouting.
Some sunshine is good for the soul, but I always make sure I wear a big hat.
I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.
Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.
Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and – since there is no other metaphor – also the soul.
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
I’ve come to realize that you live on through recordings; they’re like a musical diary, a window into somebody’s soul.
You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go… Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.
It is very important to have connection with your soul and open your heart to people.
A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth.
Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.
I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not – there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, ‘soul.’
When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love’s conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.
Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.
The physicality of a real relationship – one that encompasses mind, body and soul – ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.
My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.
Low-level programming is good for the programmer‘s soul.
If you love someone truly, just look into her eyes. You will find your soul in her.
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
I want to do what I feel in my soul. My soul won’t lead me wrong.
Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.
Everything about your life, about your body, grows! Your cells regenerate; your hair, your nails, everything grows for your entire life. And your soul needs exploration and growth. And the only way you’ll get it is by forcing yourself to be uncomfortable. Forcing yourself to get outside, out of your head.
The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually – to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul – harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love.
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
I’m honored to have been chosen as a fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. I am hugely appreciative for the support I have had throughout my life, and I look forward to using the grant to help institutions that have fed my soul and to support new work that inspires me.
While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.
As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That’s because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.
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.
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
There’s a reason poets often say, ‘Poetry saved my life,’ for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul’s suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
I did a little soul searching to explore where I had gone wrong, why I made the decisions I did, how my definitions of success and ambition were off. I love a great new pair of shoes – I love to look at my bank account and see zeroes – but what is it attached to?
Speech is the mirror of the soul.
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
A lot of music doesn’t do one thing or another. It just doesn’t do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It’s such a wide range, and it’s really interesting that we all love different things.
By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
I like a lot of old-school R&B, soul, and classic rock.
In novels in general – and also on the television – we do live in a world where bodies is what we are. We do not talk about the spirit or the soul, and there is a sense that we no longer talk about beliefs, either Freudian or Marxist.
I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.
Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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.
What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.
Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It’s conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it’s a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.
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.
The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.
You can’t regulate a soul into a business.
I feel like God put me here to help out with people’s soul, man.
I won’t sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don’t think that’s bad.
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
To be creative means to connect. It’s to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
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.
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.
What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
Transness is taking control to bring your body more in line with your soul and spirit so the two aren’t fighting against each other and struggling to survive.
Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
I try to live instinctively. And I guess I’ve always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. I really do think that dreaming and fantasies are very important to the human psyche and the soul. That’s why I want to act.
Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong – not taking the loss – that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.
What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren’t entertainers, you know.
If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn’t it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?
Until one has loved an animal a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
Be true to your heart… put your whole heart and soul into it, and then whatever you do, it will shine through.
Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
I used to believe in one true soul mate, but not anymore. I believe you can have a few.
We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
When you have the power of music within your soul and your heart, nothing can stop you.
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all.
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory – death.
Loss means losing what was we want to change but we don’t want to lose. Without time for loss, we don’t have time for soul.
I was meant to make music in my soul way younger than I did. I was just scared because I knew it would take more of me than anything else. But I was all into facing my fears.
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
Good soul music should make you feel something in your heart, in your body, and in your spirit. That’s what I try to do both in the studio and on stage.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.
My wife is my soul mate. I can’t imagine being without her.
I believe everyone has a soul mate that they can spend the rest of their life together.
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
I love this game, and I put my heart and soul into it.
I wear clothes reflecting the color of my soul!
Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.
Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man’s use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
‘Twas but my tongue, ’twas not my soul that swore.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I’d done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act.
The soul never thinks without a picture.
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.
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
I don’t think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
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.
The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.
The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
What I am is a heretic who’s recanted and, thereby, in everyone’s eyes, saved his soul. Everyone’s eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.
My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.
Here rests the soul of our nation – here also should be our conscience.
Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.
I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You’ve got to be truthful. I don’t think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you’ve got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.
Silence is refreshment for the soul.
Do activities you’re passionate about – which make your heart and soul feel perky – including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Soul music is true to its name. It’s music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people’s spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it helps to heal them, transform them, that never goes out of style. People will always need something to relate to.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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.
We may live like saints, but when it comes to our fantasy life, everybody’s got a little larceny in their soul.
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
There’s always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic ’60’s and ’70’s rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we’re sort of the anatomy of a ’70’s rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the ’50’s and ’60’s.
All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
Oh yeah, dancing’s part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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.
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff – it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
The Soul is the voice of the body’s interests.
But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins ‘we the people’, not ‘us the government’.
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.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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.
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.
Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing.
Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It’s the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
Whether I’m a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn’t change, whether I’m with adults or with my friends.
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible. The more I think about energy, the simpler my art becomes, because it is just about pure presence.
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‘Not Me,’ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‘Nature.’
I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
There’s nothing better than live music. It’s raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.
The soul has no gender.
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
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.
For me, personally, Mind, Body and Soul is my real debut.
If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
Music is a part of someone’s soul. Music is a feeling for me. And if that soul is evil, then I don’t want anything to do with it.
If you can stay alive and enjoy life, that’s the whole heart and soul of life. That’s why I played with a smile on my face all these years.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
In the end, I don’t think you can find soul. Soul finds you.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
My records are borderline dance records. They’ve got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there’s a lot of people that were like, ‘This is a dance record.’
Punctuality is the soul of business.
I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.
That is what the intuition is for: it is the direct messenger of the soul.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
I don’t think I do have a soul.
I feel like I’m walking into the illustrated pages of a fairy tale when I go to the vineyard. It draws you to nature and cleanses your soul, and you just don’t want to leave.
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
Love, peace and soul.
There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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.
What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.
The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn’t dictate to her.
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Acting is not about being famous, it’s about exploring the human soul.
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That’s just not my style… I cook from the soul.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul ‘prays in us with unspeakable groanings’.
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
The soul’s joy lies in doing.
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease – the rust of the soul, a plague, a hell itself.
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
I’ve always been a very young person with a very old soul.
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
