Soul Quotes - Page 338

The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.

O, if we could tear aside the vail, and see for but one hour what it signifies to be a soul in the power of an endless life, what a revelation would it be!

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.

But does not happiness come from the soul within?

All we are is in the soul.

Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.

Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.

'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

I would love to meet my soul mate. I'm always kind of keeping my eyes open for somebody.

I would like my album to be on the pop side with a little bit of soul. I would like to make music that is on the top of the charts right now.

I've been told I'm an old soul, but I'm only 25. I have the old with the new in me, and my house reflects that.

O ruthless, perilous, imperious hate, you can not thwart the promptings of my soul.

I'd been right from the start - soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't be trusted.

If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus.

Take Christ out of the gospel, and you take its very heart out. He has not only originated a system, but He has put Himself into it, as its very life and soul and power.

Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.

Man screams from the depths of his soul; the whole era becomes a single, piercing shriek. Art also screams, into the deep darkness, screams for help, screams for the spirit. This is Expressionism.

For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

Appalling is the soul of a man! Better might one be pushed off into the material spaces beyond the uttermost orbit of our sun, than once feel himself fairly afloat in himself.

The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul.

What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the practical things of this world, he never can hope to regulate his earthly conduct by that same heavenly soul?

Our souls belong to our bodies, not our bodies to our souls.