“We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.”
~ Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
“Beauty is the illumination of your soul.”
~ John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfillment.”
~ John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”
~ Walt Whitman
“What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.”
~ Deepak Chopra, Life After Death: The Burden of Proof
“Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?”
~ Melissa de la Cruz
“So the unwanting soul
sees what's hidden,
and the ever-wanting soul
sees only what it wants.”
~ Lao Tzu
“I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body”
~ Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
“Some people say, save yourself and you save your life. I say, be yourself and you save your soul.”
~ Alice Hoffman, Incantation
“Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.”
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
“Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence.”
~ John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.”
~ Terence McKenna
“We cannot face up to what lies ahead, without facing up to what lies within.”
~ Eleesha
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
~ Wayne Dyer
The soul never thinks without a picture.
~ Aristotle
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
~ Moshe Dayan
“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
~ Walt Whitman
Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.
~ Geoffrey Fisher
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
~ Dante Alighieri
Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.
~ King Solomon
Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul.
~ George M. Adams
He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, alike they’re needed to the flower; and joys and tears alike are sent to give the soul its nourishment.
~ Sarah Flower Adams
The most sacred place dwells within our heart, where dreams are born and secrets sleep, a mystical refuge of darkness and light, fear and conquest, adventure and discovery, challenge and transformation. Our heart speaks for our soul every moment while we are alive. Listen... as the whispering beat repeats: be...gin, be...gin, be...gin. It's really that simple. Just begin... again.
~ Royce Addington
There is a well of infinity hidden within each Soul. There you will find an incredible energy source, beyond your broadest understanding. It is Light and Healing. The Force of Nature. The essence of Love.
~ Royce Addington
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
~ Aesop
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
~ Maya Angelou
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The authentic self is soul made visible.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people’s souls.
~ Melody Beattie
If you are not living in joy, you are out of integrity with your soul.
~ Michael Beckwith
Dreams are logs that feed the fire of our souls.
~ Marcela Bennett
We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can’t see the stars at night.
~ Thomas Berry
A smile starts on the lips, a grin spreads to the eyes, a chuckle comes from the belly, but a laugh bursts forth from the soul, overflows and bubbles all around.
~ Carolyn Birmingham
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
I think that whenever soul is present, it’s because what you’re doing, whom you’re with, where you are, evokes love without your thinking about it. You are totally absorbed in the place of person or event, without ego and without judgment.
~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
Soulmates tend to find each other during their respective pursuits of their soul missions. Creating a soulmate could be seen as a spiritual reward that we give outselves, after pursuing many soul contracts rife with discord.
~ Linda Brady
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
~ Michael Bridge
Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.
~ Julia Cameron
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.
~ Joseph Campbell
Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each seed according to its own kind…each one knowing what to do, each one demanding its own rights on the earth. So artist, you too from the depths of your soul...let your roots creep forth, gaining strength.
~ Emily Carr
A soulmate is an ongoing connection with another individual that the soul picks up again in various times and places over lifetimes. We are attracted to another person at a soul level not because that person is our unique complement, but because by being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves.
~ Edgar Cayce
The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within, the greater, the farther, the deeper, the broader, the more constructive may be the result.
~ Edgar Cayce
What is soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light up a room.
~ Ray Charles
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
~ John Vance Cheney
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we have learned as we have moved toward that dream.
~ Paulo Coelho
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
~ Stephen Covey
A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity….one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Life is chance to grow a soul.
~ A. Powell Davies
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
~ Jean de la Fontaine
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
~ Emily Dickinson
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
~ Albert Diderot
The soul is healed by being with children.
~ Fyodar Dostoyevsky
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
~ Eleonora Duse
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
~ Wayne Dyer
Don’t die with your music (stories/talents) still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul.
~ Wayne Dyer
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
~ Amelia Earhart
The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.
~ Meister Eckhart
True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.
~ Albert Einstein
I said to my soul, be still, and wait...So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
~ T.S. Eliot
One thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Until you know that life is interesting – and find it so – you haven’t found your soul.
~ Geoffrey Fisher
Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.
~ Debbie Ford
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
~ Anatole France
Creativity is an attitude that transcends paradigms and beliefs.It's a soul level yearning to fulfill a purpose, uniquely contribute and leave a mark.
~ Janice Francisco
Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be…Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.
~ Erich Fromm
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A traveler am I, and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth. Say not, I have found the path of the soul, Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path. For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.
~ Seth Goden
No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
~ Emma Goldman
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
~ Martha Graham
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather.
~ Martha Graham
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
~ William Hazlitt
Music is the soul of language.
~ Max Heindel
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
~ William Ernest Henley
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
~ James Herriot
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
~ Napoleon Hill
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The soul is awakened through service.
~ Erica Jong
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
~ Helen Keller
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Everyone can be great because anyone can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t even have to make your subject and verb agree to serve…You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.
~ Harold Kushner
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
~ Lao Tzu
You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
~ C. S. Lewis
He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light. No joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.
~ Robert Ley
The soul…is audible, not visible.
~ Henry W. Longfellow
Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
~ Douglas MacArthur
There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
~ Nelson Mandela
Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.
~ Barbara Mason
Work for your own soul’s sake.
~ Edgar Lee Masters
Trust the process of the subtle push toward art and creative expression from inside you – it is the gentle call of your heart and renewed search for soul. It is an opening to expansion of your expressive abilities and the discovery of hidden limitations ready to be challenged. Be open to what it means, it has many possibilities for action in every part of your life. Ultimately it will lead to significant personal changes – to living life in a new way with new tools of creative expression.
~ Donald William Mathews
What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings.
~ Rollo May
When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense the message…that our inner self has begun its search for freedom.
~ Mary Meeker
A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul.
~ Phillip Moffitt
Imagination is the fundamental expressive tool of the soul.
~ Bruce L. Moon
Relief from boredom, anxiety, depression, and addictions are the pleasant side effects of engaging the imagination, and of restoring the soul.
~ Bruce L. Moon
Family life is full of major and minor crises- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce-and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.
~ Thomas Moore
Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
~ Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
~ John Muir
Defeat is in your mind…resilience is in your soul.
~ Keri Murphy
There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Dreams are illustrations…from the book your soul is writing about you.
~ Marsha Norman
Art is the journey of a free soul.
~ Alev Oguz
The soul never ages. My soul dances without my feet. I am the music.
~ Alev Oguz
Knowledge is the food of the soul.
~ Plato
Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.
~ Plato
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
~ Plato
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~ Marcel Proust
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never 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
Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It’s the language of the soul.
~ Gabrielle Roth
The soul is here for its own joy.
~ Rumi
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?
~ Rumi
To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.
~ Rumi
The key is to trust your heart to move where your talents can flourish. This old world will really spin when work becomes a joyous expression of the soul.
~ Al Sacharov
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
~ Mary Shelly
We all seek soul. While soul is always present, it doesn’t appear in our lives automatically. Soul requires our attention and reflection. Offering our respectful regard to the soul is a way of loving it, caring for it, nurturing it.
~ Benjamin Shield and Richard Carlson
The significant business of your life is alive and well, awaiting discovery, within your very own soul. You and I were born to come into ourselves as complete and distinctive persons. Accepting this, we build a valuable life.
~ Marsha Sinetar
We must trust our soul's noncallings as well as its callings. Destiny seems to have very specific ideas about what each of us should be doing on the planet, and our greatest personal fulfillment always lies in those directions and none other.
~ Dianne Skafte
The meaning of earthly existence lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Every action alters the soul of the doer.
~ Oswald Spengler
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.
~ Rabindanath Tagore
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Know how to live within yourself: there is in your soul a whole world of mysterious and enchanted thoughts; they will be drowned by the noise without; daylight will drive them away; listen to their singing and be silent.
~ Fyodor Tyutchev
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
~ Henry Van Dyke
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
~ Booker T. Washington
The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul.
~ John Welwood
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
~ Rebecca West
Re-examine all that you have been told. Dismiss that which insults your soul.
~ Walt Whitman
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
~ Walt Whitman
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
~ Elie Wiesel
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
~ Oscar Wilde
Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person.
~ Fritz William
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