Quotes on Soul

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Over the years I have come to believe that life is full of unchosen circumstances, that being human has to do with the evolution of our individual consciousness and with it, responsibilities for choice. Pain and joy both come with life. I believe that how we respond to what happens to us and around us shapes who we become and has to do with the psyche or the soul's growth.

I knew I heard the doctor correctly. I didn't think he said something else, I didn't think for a second, 'Well maybe he didn't say it.' No, I knew I heard him! But I still couldn't comprehend... in my mind... in my soul... he just said, 'cancer.'

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.

All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history.

I have always grappled with the fact that the truth cannot be packaged into one soul or one mind alone. It is something fragmented: there is so much to it; the truth is varied and scattered across the world.

Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed.

Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.

This is the first lesson ye should learn: There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us. This is a universal law, and until one begins to make application of same, one may not go very far in spiritual or soul development.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Fire really means a certain kind of burning in the soul that one can no longer tolerate when one is pushed against a wall.

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.

And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.

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.

When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told me to be strong, but I confused to see it so weak You say never to give up, and it hurts to see what comes to be When your hero falls soley the stars, and so does the reception of tomorrow Without my hero, theres only me alone, to deal with my sorrow Your heart ceases to work, and your soul is not happy at all What are you expected to do, when your only hero falls

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.