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Quotes including the word “soul”.

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Alfred Adler

“Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.”

Akhmatova

I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again.

Bach

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

Li Bai

“To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows, We drained a hundred jugs of wine.

Hector Berlioz

Music and love are the wings of the soul.

Giordano Bruno

The whole soul is in the whole body, in the bones and in the veins and in the heart; it is no more present in one part than in another, and it is no less present in one part than in the whole, nor in the whole less than in one part.

Buddha

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Anton Chekhov

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

Chopin

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

Confucius

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtueq gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Dante

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Delacroix

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

Democritus

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness lives in the soul.

Emily Dickinson

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Diderot

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Dostoevsky

The soul is healed by being with children.

George Eliot

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Epicurus

It takes more than just a good looking body. You should have the heart and soul to go with it.

Lola Flores

Dancing is just an expression of what is in your soul, the movements that you make are almost automatic based on that. Lola Flores quote.

Anatole France

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

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?”

Goethe

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

van Gogh,Vincent

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Nikolai Gogol

Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

Emma Goldman

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Heraclitus

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

Hermann Hesse

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Jesus

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

James Joyce

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Carl Jung

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.

Wassily Kandinsky

The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

Wassily Kandinsky

Color is a power which directly influences the soul.

Wassily Kandinsky

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

John Keats

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Omar Khayyam

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

Laozi

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Lawrence

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

Thomas Mann

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

Bob Marley

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Karl Marx

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

E.L. Masters,

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

Somerset Maugham

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

Maupassant

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Michelangelo

With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.

Michelangelo

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

Henry Miller

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Gabriela Mistral

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people,

Gabriela Mistral

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Gabriela Mistral

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

A. Modigliani

When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.

Jim Morrison

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

Mozart

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Edvard Munch

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Pablo Neruda

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

Pablo Picasso

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pindar

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Plotinus

Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All

Plotinus

Self-knowledge reveals to the soul that its natural motion is not, if uninterrupted, in a straight line, but circular, as around some inner object, about a center, the point to which it owes its origin.”

A. Edgar Poe,

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Puccini

I lived in art, I lived in love, I never hurt a soul.

Jalaluddin Rumi

When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

Jalaluddin Rumi

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Bernard Shaw

God is the hope, we all have inside us and keep us alive. God is the soul, or otherwise the energy we have inside us and help us to deal with everything in life. God is the birth, a new life from nothing, from no existence to existence.

Mary Shelley

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Percy Shelley

The soul's joy lies in doing.

John Steinbeck

A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.

Galaktion Tabidze

Glory to those with souls devoid of fear, Who for the people's cause did bravely die…

Vahan Tekeyan

My soul grows today and multiplies like an army marching on the battlefield.

Paul Verlaine

Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.

Simone Weil

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Walt Whitman

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”

Yourcenar

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...

Emile Zola

“I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.”