Soul Quotes

• Intuition is the whisper of the soul.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Intuition

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• You are either losing your mind -- or gaining your soul.

  Julia Cameron

  Clock Is Ticking, Mind, Scuba

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.244, Penguin

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• The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Beautiful, Art, Kindness

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• There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

  David Brainerd

  Heaven, Comfort, All Things

  David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards, Alexander Anderson (1854). “The Life of David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings”, p.98

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• God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies gray and threatening; when our lives have no music in them, and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their courage. Flood the path with light, run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise; tune our hearts to brave music; give us the sense of comradeship with heroes and saints of every age; and so quicken our spirits that we may be able to encourage the souls of all who journey with us on the road of life, to your honor and glory.

  Saint Augustine

  Running, Lonely, Hero

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• Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  World, Found, Seems

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• What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Heart, Way, Reason

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• Dancing as an art, we may be sure, cannot die out, but will always be undergoing a rebirth. Not merely as an art, but also as a social custom, it perpetually emerges afresh from the soul of the people.

  Havelock Ellis

  Art, People, Dancing

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• Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, People, Rite

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• Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  True Friend, Greatest Treasure, Suffering

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• Oh, if only the suffering soul knew how it is loved by God, it would die of joy and excess of happiness! Some day, we will know the value of suffering, but then we will no longer be able to suffer. The present moment is ours.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Joy, Suffering, Excess

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• Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.

  John Calvin

  Wings, Rising, World

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• Habits are qualities of the soul.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Quality, Habit

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• Destiny, or karma, depends upon what the soul has done about what it has become aware of.

  Edgar Cayce

  Karma, Destiny, Done

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• When you push against the boundaries of experience into the twilight of the unknown, the Lord will strengthen you. The beauty of your eternal soul will begin to unfold.

  Richard G. Scott

  Twilight, Boundaries, Lord

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• Soul is not about function; it's about beauty, form, and memory.

  Julia Cameron

  Memories, Function, Form

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• Three things differentiate living from the soul verses living from the ego only: the ability to sense and learn new ways, the tenacity to ride a rough road, and the patience to learn deep love over time.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Deep Love, Ego, Way

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• When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Two, Forever, Heaven

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• The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Wind, Heaven, Trouble

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.268

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• The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

  Aristotle

  Sitting, Prudent, Quiet

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• Nothing in this world is so marvelous as the transformation that a soul undergoes when the light of faith descends upon the light of reason.

  William Bernard Ullathorne

  Light, World, Transformation

  William-Bernard Ullathorne (1880). “The Endowments of Man Considered in Their Relation with His Final End”

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• Here is a truth, a truth by which to live: there is hope. There is always hope. If we choose to abandon it, our souls will turn to ash and blow away.

  John Connolly

  Blow, Ashes, Abandon

  John Connolly (2011). “The Burning Soul: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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