My Soul Quotes - Page 24

• When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.

  August Strindberg

  Clothes, Soul, Buttons

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• I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life!

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Soul, World, Body

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• Because I've taken my clothes off in public doesn't mean that I've revealed every inch of my soul.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Taken, Mean, Clothes

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• A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but of the future.

  Walt Whitman

  Past, Years, Sky

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of The Redwood-Tree”

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• My soul-bird loves my body-cage Only when it is kept fit, Pure and absolutely immaculate.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Bird, Soul, Body

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• On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.

  Hafez

  Bird, Tree, Soul

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• Rabindranath Tagore writes that the song he wanted to sing has never happened because he spent his days "stringing and unstringing" his instrument. Whenever I read these lines a certain sadness enters my soul. I get so preoccupied with the details and pressure of my schedule, with the hurry and worry of life, that I miss the song of goodness which is waiting to be sung through me.

  Joyce Rupp

  Song, Writing, Sadness

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• When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cities, Community, Soul

  "The Rock". Play by T. S. Eliot, 1934.

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• I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Distance, Adventure, Wings

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.59, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Two-hundred forty horsepower isn't enough to move me anymore. Enough to move my body, yes, but not my soul.

  Albie Sachs

  Moving, Two, Soul

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• Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near.

  John Keble

  Jesus, Night, Soul

  John Keble (1842). “The Christian year [by J. Keble, ed. by G.W. Doane]. 1st Amer. ed. 3rd Amer. ed”, p.20

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• I'm down to sell records but not my soul.

  Curtis Jackson

  Soul, Records, Sells

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• How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Art, Soul, Gallery

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1950). “A Portrait of Logan Pearsall Smith: Drawn from His Letters and Diaries, and Introduced by John Russell”

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• You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Wind, Forever

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• Woe is me!
  The winged words on which my soul would pierce
  Into the heights of love's rare universe,
  Are chains of lead around its flight of fire--
  I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Fire, Woe Is Me

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.230, Univ of California Press

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• I am most proud that I stayed true to the music of my soul.

  Wynonna Judd

  Soul, Proud

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• Language, at least, may give up the secrets of life and death, leading us through the maze to the original Word as monster or angel, to the mournful place where we may meet Job and hear his cry, 'How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?

  Janet Frame

  Jobs, Giving Up, Angel

  Janet Frame (1990). “Daughter buffalo”

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• FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!

  Christopher Marlowe

  Cutting, Night, Blood

  Christopher Marlowe (1994). “Dr. Faustus”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• And you, my best friend on earth, my soul sister who shares Chunky Monkey scoops and beefcake e-mails at the drop of a hat, the woman who made me wear a frothy, ruffled lime-colored bridesmaid dress that added fifteen pounds to my hips, are going to spill your guts to me, aren’t you? (Sunshine) No fair and the dress wasn’t lime, it was mint. (Selena) It was lime-icky green and I looked like a sick pistachio. (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sunshine, Sick, Soul

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.220, Macmillan

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• I am Darkness. I am Shadow. I am the Ruler of the Night. I, alone, stand between mankind and those who would see mankind destroyed. I am the Guardian. The Soulless Keeper. Neither Human, nor Apollite, I exist beyond the realm of the Living, beyond the realm of the Dead. I am the Dark-Hunter. And I am Eternal…unless I find that one pure heart who will never betray me. The one whose faith and courage can return my soul to me and bring me back into the light. (Dark-Hunter Creed)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, Dark, Night

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• My soul may be returned to the heavens but my heart will remain with you for all eternity.

  Richard Dominguez

  Romantic, Heart, Romance

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• For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.

  William Shakespeare

  Sympathy, Blessing, Soul

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.228, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I do get scared about the physical danger from drug dealers. But it's not in the same league as the danger I feel eating an $80 lunch with my privileged friends to discuss hunger and poverty. That's when my soul feels imperiled.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Courage, Adversity, Humility

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• I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Stars, Yoga

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• I drove away from my mind everything capable of spoiling the sense of the presence of God.... I just make it my business to persevere in His holy presence... My soul has had an habitual, silent, secret conversation with God.

  Brother Lawrence

  Prayer, Soul, Secret

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