Quotes on Soul

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.

My desires seem especially to be after weanedness from the world, perfect deadness to it, and that I may be crucified to all its allurements. My soul desires to feel itself more of a pilgrim and a stranger here below, that nothing may divert me from pressing through the lonely desert, till I arrive at my Father's house.

With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.

The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with the effects contemporary technical devices have on nerves, minds, or souls.

All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul

A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world.

Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.

Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred and fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.

But music seems to me to be the most closely identified with my soul. I mean, I feel that it’s the best for me. It just gets into the bloodstream so quickly, for no reason at all. You can close your heart, and you can sleep even with your eyes closed, but you can never close your ears.

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.

When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.

I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!