Soul Quotes
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No occupation is more tiresome or depressing than that of killing time. It is the cause of lifeweariness, the punishment the soul inflicts upon itself when reduced to passiveness and servitude.
John Lancaster Spalding
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There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.
Oscar Wilde
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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
D. H. Lawrence
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A couple of my favorite podcasts are 'Still Processing' from 'The New York Times,' Oprah's 'Super Soul Conversations,' RuPaul's 'What's the Tee?'
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
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Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.
Charles Spurgeon
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Music is like a river or stream that has come down to us through time, bringing nurture to man's soul. From the past masters, this music flowed to my father and through him to me. I want to keep this stream flowing. I don't want it to die. It must spread all over the world.
Ali Akbar Khan
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Your wickedness and cruelty committed in this respect on your fellow creatures, are greater than all the stripes you have laid upon my back or theirs. It is an outrage upon the soul, a war upon the immortal spirit, and one for which you must give account at the bar of our common Father and Creator.
Frederick Douglass
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The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
Taylor Caldwell
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It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.
Janet McTeer
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I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.
Vladimir Putin
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Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.
Iman
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You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.
Mariska Hargitay
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Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.
Jada Pinkett Smith
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As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.
Rachel Weisz
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From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.
Joe Eszterhas
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The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.
Jacques Lacan
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When you are willing to shine the light of love onto the parts that you are not proud of - onto the unaccepted parts, the unloved parts, the unwanted emotions, into all the darkened corners of your soul - love will suffuse them, embrace them, until you are left as nothing but love itself. Love arises when you expose everything.
Brandon Bays
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The leader of the band is tiredAnd his eyes are growing oldBut his blood runs through my instrumentAnd his song is in my soul -My life has been a poor attemptTo imitate the man.I'm just a living legacyTo the leader of the band.
Dan Fogelberg
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The day you stop clapping at a gig is the day your soul dies.
Nicholas James Murphy
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Essentially the soul of the planet is being controlled by corporations.
Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise
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If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.
Saint Augustine
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A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.
David Brainerd
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When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.
Billy Bob Thornton
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The soul is covered by a thousand veils.
Hazrat Inayat Khan