Quotes on Soul

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

Had it pleas'd heaven_x000D_ _x000D_ To try me with affliction * * *_x000D_ _x000D_ I should have found in some place of my soul_x000D_ _x000D_ A drop of patience.

True love's the gift which God has given_x000D_ _x000D_ To man alone beneath the heaven._x000D_ _x000D_ It is the secret sympathy,_x000D_ _x000D_ The silver link, the silken tie,_x000D_ _x000D_ Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,_x000D_ _x000D_ In body and in soul can bind.

Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet?_x000D_ _x000D_ Trust thou thy love: if she be mute, is she not pure?_x000D_ _x000D_ Lay thou thy soul full in her hands, low at her feet-_x000D_ _x000D_ Fail, Sun and Breath!-yet, for thy peace, she shall endure.

God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures_x000D_ _x000D_ Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with,_x000D_ _x000D_ One to show a woman when he loves her.

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily.

All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.

My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one they hate. It showed me that Love is a property not of the lover but of the beloved. Before my Soul taught me, Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo; its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompasses every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be.

The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it's blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every morning for the rest of my life, but that wouldn't solve anything.

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

I count life just a stuff_x000D_ _x000D_ To try the soul's strength on.

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.

A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.