My Soul Quotes - Page 26

• In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Rain, Clouds, Light

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• I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

  Annie Lennox

  Soul, Trying, Calling

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• I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

  Douglas MacArthur

  Journey, Soul, Soldier

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• I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

  Tobey Maguire

  Character, Soul, Might

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• Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Book, Writing, Soul

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez Meets Ernest Hemingway" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.nytimes.com. July 26, 1981.

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• Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mother, Father, Thinking

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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'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Fighting, Roots, Soul

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• I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street.

  Max Muller

  Long, Soul, Secret

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.

  Max Muller

  Light, Soul, Bud

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.

  James Otis

  Thinking, Names, Soul

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• I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.

  Anne Rice

  Umpires, Soul, Secret

  "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

  Rumi

  Bird, Soul, Towers

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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• The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

  Rumi

  Heart, Eye, Soul

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.300, Shambhala Publications

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• But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Tree, Soul, Humanity

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus”

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• I fed my ego, but not my soul.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Ego, Soul, Comedy

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• I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Success, Thinking, People

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• I put my soul into every book I write.

  Wilbur Smith

  Book, Writing, Soul

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• May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Love, Inspirational, Soul

  Rudolf Steiner, Christopher Bamford (2004). “Start Now!: A Book of Soul and Spiritual Exercises : Meditation Instructions, Meditations, Exercises, Verses for Living a Spiritual Year, Prayers for the Dead & Other Practices for Beginning and Experienced Practitioners”, p.124, SteinerBooks

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• Dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.

  John Travolta

  People, Dancing, Soul

  "John Travolta: 'I don't think I would be here without Scientology'". Interview with Carmen Gray, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2013.

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• I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.

  Steven Tyler

  Rocks, Soul, Inspired

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• There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Character, Soul, Corners

  Evelyn Underhill (2011). “Fragments from an Inner Life: The Notebooks of Evelyn Underhill”, p.85, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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  Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

  Jim Valvano

  Encouraging, Basketball, Uplifting

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

  Jessamyn West

  Success, Men, Soul

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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• Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Dream, Agony, Evil

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