Human Soul Quotes

• There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Success, Peace, Determination

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• What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

  George Eliot

  Love, Life, Relationship

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5884, Delphi Classics

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• When it comes to individual destiny, there is no power greater in the universe then the conviction of the human soul to make a choice.

  James Dashner

  Destiny, Choices, Soul

  James Dashner (2009). “The Journal of Curious Letters”, p.377, Simon and Schuster

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• Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.

  C. A. Bartol

  Nature, Angel, Animal

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• A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

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• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

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• The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Soul, Coins, Riches

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

  Mark Twain

  Change, Loyalty, Courage

  Speech, Hartford, Conn., 1884

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• Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Freedom, Light, Two

  "Essays on Goethe (Goethe's Works)". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1888.

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• A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  James Allen (2015). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.7, BookRix

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• God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best.

  Robert Collyer

  Inspirational, Life, Spring

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  Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

  George Eliot

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  "The New Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern". Book compiled by Tryon Edwards et al., 1960.

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• Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Money, Real

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  Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

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• The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Soul, Needs

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• The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Wisdom, Real

  Victor Hugo (1886). “William Shakespeare”

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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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• Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe
  -the open sesame to every soul.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Love, Peace, Essence

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• Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Inspirational, Determination, Commitment

  "Diamond in the Rough: More Fun Adventures with Abby Diamond". Book by Kristie Smith-Armand, July 2010.

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• Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Spiritual, Soul, Humans

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• A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

  Charles Kingsley

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The 32nd Infantry Division in World War II". Book by Harold Whittle Blakeley, 1957.

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• Part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to laws of space and time.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Law, Space

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• The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Beauty, Soul

  "The Sayings of D. H. Lawrence".

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• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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