Quotes about Soul
"You don't love somebody for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car; but because they sing a song only you can hear."
- Oscar Wilde
It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).
- Aristotle
Anger is the noise of the soul; the unseen irritant of the heart; the relentless invader of silence.
- Max Lucado
I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of man's puny, inexhaustible, voice still talking! ...not simply because man alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because man has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion, sacrifice and endurance.
- William Faulkner
I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
- William Faulkner
There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.
- William James
Edwards says elsewhere: I am bold to say that the work of God in the conversion of one soul, considered together with the source foundation, and purchase of it, and also the benefit, end, and eternal issue of it, is a more glorious work of God than the creation of the whole material universe.
- William James
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul
- Henri Matisse
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his souls estate.
- Henry David Thoreau
Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.
- Henry David Thoreau
Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.
- Henry Reed
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
- Henry Ward Beecher