Soul Quotes - Page 10

• The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.

  Epes Sargent

  Bird, Remembrance, Cages

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 558, 1895.

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Soul And Body, Figures

  "Aristotle's Psychology". Book by Aristotle, translated by E. Wallace, p. 61, 1882.

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• I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Fear, Real

  FaceBook post by Caroline Myss from Feb 04, 2014

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• Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beauty, Fall, Carpe Diem

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.506, Broadview Press

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• Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

  John Dryden

  Able, Too Much, Divine

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.261, Pearson Education

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• I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.

  Laurence Sterne

  Book, World, Convince

  Laurence Sterne (1768). “A sentimental journey through France and Italy, by mr. Yorick”, p.173

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• Death only this mysterious truth unfolds,
  The mighty soul how small a body holds.

  John Dryden

  Death, Body, Mysterious

  John Dryden, Keith Walker (2003). “The Major Works”, p.366, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns.

  Herrick Johnson

  Morning, Night, Dawn

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Powerful, Army, Battle

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “Miscellaneous works”, p.189

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• Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Spiritual, Doing What You Love, Making Love

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (1971). “Chagall at the Met”, Leon Amiel Publisher

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• Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

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• The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Courage, Yoga

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.

  Unknown

  Friendship, Sister, Brother

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.84, Beacon Press

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• It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

  Rebecca West

  Passion, Destiny, Desire

  Rebecca West (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”

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• When you are filled with soul energy you become magnetic.

  Choa Kok Sui

  Energy, Filled, Magnetic

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• The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

  Omar Khayyam

  Single, Thoughtful, Solitude

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.122, University of Virginia Press

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• Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Newspapers, Impressionism

  "Matisse". Book by Pierre Schneider, 1984.

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• Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Men, Hair

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  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.

  John Muir

  Life, Strength, Beauty

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.814, Library of America

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• The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

  William Blake

  Sweet, Artist, Delight

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.171, Pearson Education

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• Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Heart, Thinking

  Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.66, Aum Publications

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• Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hope, Disappointment, Expectations

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Beauty, Heaven

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• 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.

  Jim Morrison

  Hilarious, Blow, Intelligent

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