Soul Quotes - Page 16

• No matter what happens around us, or to us, through love, our soul reaches immortality, conquering all dimensions and all destinies.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Destiny, Matter, Dimensions

  "Akiane Kramarik – Believe". Interview with Bobbi DePorter, healthywealthynwise.com.

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• Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

  Theodore Parker

  Men, Affinity, Produce

  Theodore Parker (1863). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: A discourse of matter pertaining to religion”, p.202

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• All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, God, Nature

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 267

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• The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

  George Sand

  Beauty, Eye, Vision

  George Sand (1871). “Handsome Lawrence: A Sequel to A Rolling Stone”, p.30

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• Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Motivational, Rights

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1978, Book 1: January 1 to June 30, 1978". Book by Jimmy Carter, 1979.

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• Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Success, Spiritual, Love Yourself

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

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• Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, People, Sells

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"

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• Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container of the body. In this way, the body is governed in its earthly life by the soul, and the soul contemplates heavenly things through faith.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Mirrors, Body, Way

  Hildegard of Bingen (1998). “The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen : Volume II”, p.22, Oxford University Press, USA

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• By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.

  George Herbert

  Mean, Meditation, Solitude

  "The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel".

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• Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

  Herman Melville

  Hope, Struggle, Breaking Silence

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• But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visits; the sitting-room, where the members of the family come and go as they list; but beyond that, far beyond, are other rooms, the handles of whose doors perhaps are never turned; no one knows the way to them, no one knows whither they lead; and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes.

  Edith Wharton

  Doors, Drawing, House

  Edith Wharton (2016). “Early Short Stories: American Literature”, p.143, VM eBooks

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• Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

  Thomas Moore

  Finding The One, World, Discovering

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• For our soul is so preciously loved of him that is highest, that it over-passeth the knowing of all creatures.

  Julian of Norwich

  Knowing, Creatures, Highest

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• I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.

  Douglas Coupland

  Hurt, Philosophy, Religion

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Light, Essence, Joy

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• Every action alters the soul of the doer.

  Oswald Spengler

  Spiritual, Doers, Action

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• To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge,--carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man.

  Joseph Addison

  Ambition, Men, Forever

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.356

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• I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless it be that so much more common one, of a contracted soul joined to an enlarged fortune.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Sight, Common, Fortune

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• The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?

  Joseph Addison

  Perfection, Touching, Lines

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.52

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• In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.

  Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

  Actors, Moral, Scene

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• Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!

  James Russell Lowell

  Beautiful, Heart, Inward

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• Philosophers have widely differed as to the seat of the soul, and St. Paul has told us that out of the heart proceed murmurings; but there can be no doubt that the seat of perfect contentment is in the head, for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Perfect, Doubt

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.91

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• The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.

  J. G. Holland

  Faces, Form, Faculty

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.37

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• Go and try to save a soul, and you will see how well it is worth saving, how capable it is of the most complete salvation. Not by pondering about it, nor by talking of it, but by saving it, you learn its preciousness.

  Phillips Brooks

  Talking, Trying, Saving

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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• And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell,
  In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel.

  Homer

  Lasts, Mead

  Homer (2013). “The Odyssey: The Story of Odysseus”, p.426, Lulu Press, Inc

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