Human Soul Quotes - Page 16

• Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Tennis, Soul, Trying

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• Just as a human soul that faces great difficulties also faces great opportunities for spiritual growth, so a human society that faces destruction also faces the opportunity to enter a period of renaissance. I think that, barring an accident, the wish to survive will keep us from a nuclear war.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, War, Thinking

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.105, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul.

  Lewis Mumford

  Self, Soul, Machines

  Lewis Mumford (1970). “The myth of the machine”

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• In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies this fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of His universe, doesn't it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation, the human soul?

  Wernher von Braun

  Religious, Real, Thinking

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• Few see beyond the outward appearance
  And recognize the true worth of a human soul.
  When they do, miracles occur.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Miracle, Soul, Appearance

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• In the end, there's still the Word, everywhere... In Heaven and it's Angels, the Earth and Stars, even in the darkest part of the Human Soul It was there where it burned brightest. And for a moment, I was blinded.

  Christopher Walken

  Stars, Angel, Heaven

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• Nothing beats having a genuine compassion for human souls. If there is one thing I know, it's that people want to be acknowledged; they want to be heard; and above all, they want to be appreciated.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Compassion, People, Soul

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human soul.

  David O. McKay

  Loyalty, Home, Soul

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• The unfolding of the bare human soul...that is what interests me.

  Bruce Lee

  Soul, Unfolding, Interest

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.239, Tuttle Publishing

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• The deadliest blow the enemy of the human soul can strike is to do fury honor. . . . Official acceptance is the one unmistakable symptom that salvation is beaten again, and is the one surest sign of fatal misunderstanding, and is the kiss of Judas.

  James Agee

  Acceptance, Kissing, Blow

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction has perhaps been more about the differences between the unconstrained world of the imagination and the realities you run into, day-to-day, when you're riding your donkey.

  Chad Harbach

  Running, Reality, Differences

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the steel-and-glass society that we live in, the value system would be that the lawyer, with the Mercedes and the fine suit and the Ivy League education, was more valued than the minority without the education. But on the island, the rules are changed. It's the person who can make a fire or who can make friends. A kind human soul is valued.

  Scott Raab

  Fire, Islands, Glasses

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

  Antonio Banderas

  Honesty, Thinking, Careers

  "Actor Antonio Banderas". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 18, 2011.

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• There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hate, Hatred, Soul

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.273

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• Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

  Annette Bening

  Soul, Acting, Fame

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Art, Sadness, Wings

  Theodore Dreiser (1920). “Hey Rub-a-dub-dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life”

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• 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.

  Ralph Peters

  Relationship, Powerful, Technology

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• Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

  John Ruskin

  Education, School, Soul

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.216

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

  John Ruskin

  Women, Soul, Doe

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.91, University of Virginia Press

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• Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

  George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

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• There are depths to the human soul that should not be fathomed.

  Ann Rinaldi

  Soul, Depth, Should

  Ann Rinaldi (2002). “The Staircase”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Men, Sea

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Nature, Writing, Butterfly

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.91, Canongate Books

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• To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Soul, Mind

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.40, Beacon Press

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• The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

  Frances Harper

  Two, Perfect, Soul

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.109, Feminist Press at CUNY

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