Quotes About Soul

Perfection is impersonal. Our personality is the part of us which belongs to error and sin. The whole effort of the mystic has always been to become such that there is no part left in his soul to say 'I'. But the part of the soul which says 'We' is infinitely more dangerous still.

Il y a dans l'âme comme une phagocytose ; tout ce qui est menacé par le temps secrète du mensonge pour ne pas mourir, et à proportion du danger de mort. C'est pourquoi il n'y a pas d'amour de la vérité sans un consentement sans réserve à la mort.

I must love being nothing. How horrible it would be if I were something! I must love my nothingness, love being a nothingness. I must love with that part of the soul which is on the other side of the curtain, for the part of the soul which is perceptible to consciousness cannot love nothingness. It has a horror of it. Though it may think it loves nothingness, what it really loves is something other than nothingness.

the exchange of love is illegitimate if one or the other's consent does not proceed from the central point of the soul where the 'yes' can only be eternal. The obligation of marriage, which is now so often regarded as a simple social convention, is written into the very nature of human thought by the affinity between carnal love and beauty. Everything that has some relationship to beauty should be exempted (unaffected) by the passage of time. Beauty is eternity here below.

Un homme qui n'a pas pris la résolution de fidélité exclusive à la lumière intérieure installe le mensonge au centre même de l'âme. Les ténèbres intérieures en sont la punition.

Lieber Gott, falls es einen Gott gibt, rette meine Seele, falls ich eine Seele habe.

Those who remarked in the countenance of this young hero a dissolute audacity mingled with extreme haughtiness ... could not yet deny to his countenance that sort of comeliness which belongs to an open set of features, well formed by nature, modeled by art to the usual rules of courtesy, yet so far frank and honest, that they seemed as if they disclaimed to conceal the natural working of the soul.

You really are a soul caged in a human body. The body decays but the soul is everlasting. Leave a legacy you can be proud of. Make a difference in this world now while you still can. Even after you have left your soul shall remain. You will still know.

And what difference is there in the color of the soul?

She was a very old soul, which meant that her life was driven by love and not ego.

everywhere I looked, Paris was an aesthetic banquet that fed my soul.

was now being asked by my soul to become fully and uncompromisingly self-loving for the first time in my life. It had long been my prayer. Divorce was

Transcending the limiting ego version of who you are and connecting with your empowered spirit when times are difficult takes imagination, intention, and help from others. It's part of our soul's work to learn to live an empowered, authentic life and not merely be a prerecorded tape replaying the past mistakes of others.

Waitressing: [...] She was a very old soul, which meant that her life was driven by love and not ego. [...] She, on a soul level, had decided to commit a huge part of her life to serving people, to being kind and caring and wouldn't seek a lot of attention for it. The work was its own reward.

If you think you're lost in life] even though your mind didn't know it, your soul has never been lost. It knows exactly where it's going, and if your ego will step out of the way and allow you to be guided, you will move directly towards you purpose in life.

for a life that is rich, beautiful, soul satisfying, uplifting, and authentic instead of one that beats them down.

Most people underestimate eyes. They're infinite. You look someone straight in the eye and your whole soul can be sucked out in a nanosecond. Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist

One soul is enough, I know, to pay the debt for thousands, if one will go to the gods in all good faith.

To yield is grievous, but the obstinate soul That fights with Fate, is smitten grievously.

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

I will screen my soul From reach of Pallas' grievous wrath.

Does it hurt in your ears, sir, or in your soul?

Warm für die Kalten leidet deine Seele. (warm for the cold does your soul burn) - Ismene to Antigone