123 quotes
“Whenever you are creating beauty around you you are restoring your own soul”
— Alice Walker
“Emotions are the language of the soul. They are the cry that gives the heart a voice...”
— Michael Bridge
“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul”
— Bach
“Color is the keyboard the eyes are the harmonies the soul is the piano with many strings”
— Wassily Kandinsky
“The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.”
— Omar Khayyam
“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”
— Denis Diderot
“Laughter is the language of the soul.”
— Pablo Neruda
“Faith is the antiseptic of the soul.”
— Walt Whitman
“The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.”
— Audrey Hepburn
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
— Cicero
“The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.”
— Hannah Whitall Smith
“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye — it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
— Edvard Munch
“True happiness arises from the good use of all the powers of the soul applied to good objects.”
— François Fénelon
“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity.”
— Simone Weil
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity and faith is the attention of the soul”
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“A room without books is a body without a soul.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
“The soul walks not upon a line neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself like a lotus of countless petals.”
— Khalil Gibran
“The soul is healed by being with children”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I am not this hair I am not this skin I am the soul that lives within”
— Rumi
“Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love for they enkindle and melt the soul and faith fans the flame”
— Teresa of Avila
“I am not this hair I am not this skin I am the soul that lives within and faith awakens that soul”
“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
“The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful itself. To see with compassion is to be transformed.”
— Plotinus
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail because he has a soul a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and peace.”
— William Faulkner
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.”
— Emily Dickinson
“Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”
“The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.”
“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold; happiness dwells in the soul.”
— Democritus
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
“Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same”
— Emily Bronte
“Love is the beauty of the soul.”
— Saint Augustine
“Simplicity is the nature of great souls.”
— Papa Ramadas
“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?”
“Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.”
— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
“The small human being in me is being asked to enter a conversation with my own soul and faith is the language we speak”
— Hafiz
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place through the doorway of compassion”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“Art should be something that liberates your soul provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further through creativity.”
— Keith Haring
“In the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti full of peace and joy but encompassed by all the horrors of the half-lived life.”
— Herman Melville
“The quieter you become the more you can hear the whispers of your own soul”
— Ram Dass
“The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.”
— Thomas Fuller
“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”
— Frederick Douglass
“What the soul sees and has experienced that it knows the rest is appearance knowledge and prejudice”
— Sri Aurobindo
“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.”
— Eleonora Duse
“Friendship is the marriage of the soul.”
— Voltaire
“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life”
— Pablo Picasso
“A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.”
— B.K.S. Iyengar
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.”
— Theodore Dreiser
“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.”
— Julia Cameron
“Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; happiness dwells in the soul.”
“Music gives a soul to the universe wings to the mind flight to the imagination and life to everything.”
— Plato
“I have dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after in the silence of my soul”
“If God gave the soul his whole creation the soul would not be filled but only through faith does the soul find fullness”
— Meister Eckhart
“To practice any art no matter how well or badly is a way to make your soul grow. So do it with creativity.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
“If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know someone dont bother analyzing their behavior. Ask them about peace and watch their eyes.”
— Dostoevsky
“The soul never thinks without a mental image.”
— Aristotle
“The soul that is without a fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
“Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”
“The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul”
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky but conscious breathing is my anchor and faith is the anchor of my soul”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”
— Dante Alighieri
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.”
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The first peace which is the most important is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship with the universe.”
— Black Elk
“Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.”
— Marsha Norman
“Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold happiness dwells in the soul that practices kindness”
“The soul is healed by being with children who remind us of times innocence”
“The soul walks upon all paths the soul does not grow on a single line”
“What the soul needs is not more information but more initiation into the mysteries of grief love and healing”
— Francis Weller
“Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.”
“The interior of every soul is a vast and unexplored country.”
— Teresa of Ávila
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life and replaces it with wonder”
“Music gives a soul to the universe wings to the mind flight to the imagination and wonder to everything”
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts choose healing colors”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”
“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.”
— Carl Jung
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“The soul sees by means of affliction”
— James Hillman
“Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.”
— Mahalia Jackson
“The first peace which is the most important is that which comes within the souls of people”
“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul”
— Muhammad Ali
“Not all of me shall die; that which is best in me shall survive my death.”
— Ovid
“The soul that has no established aim loses itself; for, as they say, to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.”
“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul”
“The human soul does not want to be advised or fixed or saved it simply wants to be witnessed with kindness”
— Parker Palmer
“The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day.”
— Heraclitus
“Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.”
“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”
— William Ernest Henley
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
“Emotions are the languages of the soul.”
— Neale Donald Walsch
“Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
— Albert Camus
“The prayer of the heart is the source of all good, refreshing the soul as if it were a garden.”
— Gregory of Sinai
“Every natural action is graceful when it is performed in the presence of the soul.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.”
— Patanjali
“When I know your soul I will paint your eyes”
— Amedeo Modigliani
“It dont mean a thing if it aint got that swing”
— Duke Ellington
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts”
“A poet is a painter of the soul.”
— Molière
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