Quotes about Soul
Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood. That's rather a broad idea, I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
- Arthur Conan Doyle
There lies the image of our past and of our future, cried Alleyne, as they rode on upon their way. Now, which is better, to till God's earth, to have happy faces round one's knee, and to love and be loved, or to sit forever moaning over one's own soul, like a mother over a sick babe?
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is, however, when the human soul is ploughed and harrowed by suffering that the seeds of truth may be planted
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Do not let the hero in your soul parish, in lonely frustration, for the life you deserved but never have been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
- Ayn Rand
You want to do it? I might. If you offer me enough. Howard—anything you ask. Anything. I'd sell my soul... That's the sort of thing I want you to understand. To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul—would you understand why that's much harder?
- Ayn Rand
When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion -- that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet -- therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul's code.
- Stephen Covey
Spend time with people who enrich your mind, nourish your heart, and illuminate your soul.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Worry soils, even the purest mind.Envy poisons, even the purest heart.Greed sullies, even the purest soul.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
The entire world above you, around you, beneath you, and beside you, is insignificant in comparison to the world within you.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Words let you know what is in someone's mind, deeds let you know what is in someone's heart, and character lets you know what is in someone's soul.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
- Catherine of Siena
Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.
- St. Anthony of Padua