Soul Quotes - Page 12

• Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Destiny, Training, Life Is

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• To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Desire, Alive, World

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.12, e-artnow

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• LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Tragedy, Body, Comedy

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.548, Wordsworth Editions

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• I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on to the next, each growing richer, happier and higher, carrying with it only the real memories of what has gone before.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Death, Memories, Real

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• I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Audio CD "Woody Allen: Stand-Up Comic 1964-1968", 1999.

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• The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.

  Epictetus

  Judgment, Purification, Impurity

  "The Discourses and Manual: Together with Fragments of His Writings".

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• The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

  Alexander Pope

  Home, Veronica Mars, Uneasy

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.32

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• T is the Divinity that stirs within us.

  Joseph Addison

  Divinity

  'Cato' (1713) act 5, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Wander at will,
  Day after day,--
  Wander away,
  Wandering still--
  Soul that canst soar!
  Body may slumber:
  Body shall cumber
  Soul-flight no more.

  Robert Browning

  May, Slumber, Body

  Robert Browning (2003). “Robert Browning”, p.44, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Philosophy, Asking

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.240, Courier Corporation

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• 'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

  Judy Garland

  I Love You, Valentines Day, I Love Him

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• The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Happiness, Heart, Compassion

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• Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near.

  John Keble

  Jesus, Night, Sun

  John Keble (1842). “The Christian year [by J. Keble, ed. by G.W. Doane]. 1st Amer. ed. 3rd Amer. ed”, p.20

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• Love is the oxygen of the soul

  Tony Robbins

  Love Is, Oxygen

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2017

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• In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Selfish, Brave, Coward

  Frederick William Robertson (1850). “An address delivered to the members of the Working Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the question of the introduction of sceptical publications into the library”, p.13

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• Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,--just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  School, Elephants, Differences

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3103, Delphi Classics

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• The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.

  Bram Stoker

  Beautiful, World, Lasts

  Bram Stoker (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)”, p.2481, Delphi Classics

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• Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Inspiration, Being Alone

  c. AD 170-180 Meditations, bk.4, no.3 (translated by M Staniforth).

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• Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

  Will Durant

  Education, Knowledge, Eye

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• There is, they say, (and I believe there is),
  A spark within us of th' immortal fire,
  That animates and moulds the grosser frame;
  And when the body sinks, escapes to heaven;
  Its native seat, and mixes with the gods.

  John Armstrong

  Believe, Fire, Heaven

  John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.111, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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• The body,-that is dust; the soul,-it is a bud of eternity.

  Nathaniel Culverwell

  Dust, Bud, Body

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• You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dance

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• The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Beauty, Stronger, Reason

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.269

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• The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!

  Matthew Arnold

  Beautiful, Wise, Strong

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.42, Delphi Classics

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• The soul of man is larger than the sky,
  Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark
  Of the unfathomed center.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Ocean, Dark, Men

  "To Shakespeare". Poem by Hartley Coleridge, 1851.

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