My Soul Quotes - Page 31

• My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.

  Sara Teasdale

  Pain, Broken, Soul

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• What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Fall, Color

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.5, A&C Black

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• Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of: Wherefore, let they voice, Rise like a fountain for me night and day.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Prayer, Night

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 414

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• I can't go back because I lost all my Soul Reaper powers! - Rukia You lost your powers? What are they, socks? - Ichigo

  Tite Kubo

  Soul, Lost, Sock

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• Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sunset, Rainbow, Soul

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• I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak I miss a woman who was never born I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet Everything passes Everything perishes Everything palls my thought walks away with a killing smile leaving discordant anxiety which roars in my soul No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope

  Sarah Kane

  Loss, Kissing, Years

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.218, A&C Black

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• Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Procrastination, Fighting, Exercise

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.122, Random House

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• I don’t think I could have picked a worse guy to be my soul mate.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Thinking, Guy, Soul

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• Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sadness, Soul, Bees

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2010). “Chains”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

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• The only initiation which I advocate and which I look for with all the ardor of my Soul, is that by which we are able to enter into the Heart of God within us, and there make an Indissoluble Marriage, which makes us the Friend and Spouse of the Repairer … there is no other way to arrive at this Holy Initiation than for us to delve more and more into the depth of our Soul and to not let go of the prize until we have succeeded in liberating its lively and vivifying origin.

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

  Letting Go, Heart, Soul

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• I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise

  A. R. Rahman

  Spiritual, Exercise, Soul

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• Wilderness, to me, is a spiritual necessity. The mysterious spiritual experience of being close to natural restored my soul [after the death of his son]. My experience reinforced by dedication to use the art of photography as an inspiration for others to work together to save nature's places of spiritual sanctuary for future generations.

  Clyde Butcher

  Photography, Spiritual, Art

  "Extreme Exposure: Everglades — Clyde Butcher’s Wilderness Intuition" by Steven Crandell, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2011.

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• I drank that Wine of which the Soul is its vessel.
  Its ecstasy has stolen my intellect away.
  A Light came and kindled a Flame in the depth of my Soul.
  A Light so radiant that the sun orbits around it like a butterfly.

  Rumi

  Wine, Butterfly, Light

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• Praise lies upon a higher plane than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle about myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration.

  Ole Hallesby

  Lying, Self, Circles

  "Prayer".

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• I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and forgetting I carry out my disbelief with uninspired hands, my eyes shut, my emotions dulled, my spirit numb. In times like these I am in desperate need of truth to come to me like a blinding light, like a splinter in my soul, reminding me of the brevity of my time here on earth.

  Jon Foreman

  Eye, Light, Times Like These

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• Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.

  John Henry Newman

  Love Is, Dear Lord, Shining

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• I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Soul, Meat, Collectors

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• It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.

  Julianna Baggott

  Children, Ideas, Profound

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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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• In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend.

  Catherine Killigrew

  Sister, Sibling, Soul

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• My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Stars, Soul, World

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