Words matter. These are the best Soul Quotes from famous people such as Wassily Kandinsky, Victor Hugo, Richard Eyre, Donny Osmond, Nikos Kazantzakis, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain – grief, despair, depression, dementia – is less accessible to treatment. It’s connected to who we are – our personality, our character, our soul, if you like.
Sometimes when you have multimedia, people use it too much. It has to be a tool and not the end product, if you can use it as a tool. The same thing apples when you are recording. We had this problem in the 80’s, we got so computerized there was no heart and soul in the music anymore.
When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy – some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.
Typically a weekend retreat for the heart, soul and palate, brunch is the perfect way to unwind and reconnect.
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul ‘prays in us with unspeakable groanings’.
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
I hope with all my heart and soul that every young man who receives the priesthood will honor that priesthood and be true to the trust which is conveyed when it is conferred. May each of us who holds the priesthood of God know what he believes.
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
It’s better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
I think that American music, for me, it’s a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about black music, about soul music.
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
I think if you write about human relationships, you’re always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don’t separate certain – perhaps more extreme – things that people do from others.
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.
Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Upon graduation, I hit a wall. All of my good friends from UCLA were taking on jobs they were passionate about, and I felt left behind. It took a bit of soul searching, but in the end, I finally had the guts to pursue acting.
Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. 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.
When I sing, I don’t want them to see that my face is black. I don’t want them to see that my face is white. I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.
People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It’s a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.
When the soul, through its own fault… becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Don’t sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
I used to believe in one true soul mate, but not anymore. I believe you can have a few.
I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
Loss means losing what was we want to change but we don’t want to lose. Without time for loss, we don’t have time for soul.
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
The only thing you’re taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we’re all spiritual creatures.
It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
It doesn’t surprise me that men in their twenties and thirties are often looking for a much older woman. What is the problem with a man of 30 being with a woman of 50? It is a matter of energy and the soul, not a matter of age of the body.
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
Every building must have… its own soul.
If you like good ol’ fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.
Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.
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.
Alternative R&B is in my soul. It’s not going anywhere.
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
Art, it seems to me, doesn’t need freedom so much as it needs courage and love – some would call it ‘soul’ or ‘Eros.’
I always say that I was born in the wrong era. I should’ve been born in the ’70s or ’80s when love meant so much more than it does today. In this busy world, we forget to find each other, fall in love, and go all the way for our soul mates.
