Quotes with soul

  • What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
  • Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
  • I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.
  • I'm not a rich person financially, but I am in mind and soul. I have so much energy and strength, and I can do a lot of things that make me, and I think my fans, quite happy. When everything's gone, music alone shall live on.
  • There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
  • Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.
  • But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
  • O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
  • No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
  • Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
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  • Aristotle Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Aristotle A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Sigmund Freud The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?''
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Martin Luther King Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Jean Cocteau I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Meister Eckhart A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Muhammad Ali Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • David Gemmell A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.
    Quest For Lost Heroes (2011) 43
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
    Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson (1952)
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
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  • Joseph Addison Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Luther Burbank Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.
    Luther Burbank
    American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer (1849 - 1926)
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  • George Carlin Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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  • Alfred Adler God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • William Shakespeare Good name in men and women, dear my lord, is the immediate jewel of their soul.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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