Soul Quotes - Page 18

• Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Affair, Attributes

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• The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love.

  Mechthild of Magdeburg

  Return, Strive, Made

  Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1953). “The Revelations of Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210-1297): Or, The Flowing Light of the Godhead”

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• Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th' centre and enjoy bright day; But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Dark, Moon

  'Comus' (1637) l. 373

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• You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Food, Wine, Men

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.391, Delphi Classics

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• But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant

  William Wordsworth

  Champion, Tilt, Force

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.327

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• I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

  William Wordsworth

  Pride, Boys, Joy

  'Resolution and Independence' (1807) st. 7

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• Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

  John Milton

  Iron, Tears, Pluto

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 105

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• I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

  John Milton

  Ribs, Ears, Might

  'Comus' (1637) l. 560

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• He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . . He was naturally learn'd; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. . . . He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating in to clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some occasion is presented to him.

  John Dryden

  Book, Men, Serious

  'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668) on Shakespeare

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• A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify; A never dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky.

  Charles Wesley

  Sky, Dying, Fit

  Charles Wesley (1989). “Charles Wesley : A Reader: A Reader”, p.449, Oxford University Press, USA

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• My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play

  Francis Quarles

  Play, Judging, Plot

  'Epigram: Respice Finem'

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• Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend

  Michelangelo

  Wise, Heart, Men

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• Medicine for the soul.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Science, Medicine, Library

  Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes. I. 49. 3.,

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• No one can rob us of our own soul, and our spirit is already one with the eternal goodness.

  Ernest Holmes

  Spirit, Goodness, Eternal

  Ernest Holmes (2009). “What We Believe: The Essence of Science of Mind”, p.17, The Floating Press

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• He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Would Be, Great Souls

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• In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints ... and gods.

  Steven Pinker

  Believe, People, Saint

  Steven Pinker (2003). “How the Mind Works”, p.494, Penguin UK

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• The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning to take on God's gentle yoke, It is a yearning to give one's self to God's Way.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Blessing, Self, Giving

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• For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

  Plato

  Eye, Evil, Body

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.52, Booklassic

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• We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.163

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• Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. And you don't have to be a poet or a philosopher to know which is best.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Attitude, Fate, People

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• With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Adventure, Consistency

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.25, Coyote Canyon Press

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• The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this ME, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas.

  Madame de Stael

  Moving, Fire, Ideas

  "Germany" by Madame de Stael, Part III, Chapter II, 1813.

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• The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.

  Maria Mitchell

  Nerves, World, Ontology

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?

  Charles Dickens

  Friendship, Fire, Odds

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• I wear black on the outside
  'Cause black is how I feel on the inside.

  Steven Morrissey

  Clothes, Feelings, Black

  "Song: 'Unloveable'". 1986.

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