Soul Quotes

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

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

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Who says soul has only one colour?

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.

No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

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.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

I will devote my body and soul to the service of the people and the nation.

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.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.