Soul Quotes - Page 25

• Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Queens, Sleep, Insomnia

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 5

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• Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

  John Dryden

  Rags, Arms, Poverty

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.189

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• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

  Kate Chopin

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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• The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.

  Aristotle

  Heart, Brain, Movement

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• There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts.

  Rene Descartes

  Exercise, Brain, Littles

  "Passions of the Soul".

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• You are only a young talent, but we don't know how old your soul is.

  Tom Jones

  Art, Talent, Young

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• Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

  William Blake

  Life, Men, Age

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.75, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Complaining

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• Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.

  George Carman

  Confusion, Feelings, Emotion

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• Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Achievement, Endurance, Doe

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• And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Three, Levels, Consciousness

  "You Are Not Your Brain: Interview With Alva Noe, Ph.D". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2010.

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• Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Greed, Extravagance, Literature

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• The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Body

  Masudul Hasan, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1978). “Stories and Biographies from Iqbal”

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• Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

  Joseph Joubert

  Religion, Superstitions, Superstitious

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Past, Games, Evil

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Perfect, Judging, Mind

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8312, Delphi Classics

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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

  Trying, Calling, Way

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• Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Peace, Opinion, Indifference

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 11, 1799.

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• Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beauty, Men, Type

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.

  Caroline Knapp

  Integrity, Pride, Passivity Is

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.261, Dial Press

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• I did not know my soul until I saw it's reflection in your eyes.

  Anne Fortier

  Love, Eye, Reflection

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• I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Existence

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• I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Falling In Love, Two, Never Fall In Love

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• And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.

  Emily Giffin

  Memories, Personal History, Share

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• The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Reason, Existence

  "Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God".

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