Quotes About Soul

Rhythm and harmony permeate the innermost element of the soul, affect it more powerfully than anything else, and bring it grace, such education makes one graceful if one is properly trained, and the opposite if one is not.

T]hose who care about their souls and do not subordinate them to the body dissociate themselves firmly from these others and refuse to accompany them on their haphazard journey; and, believing that it is wrong to oppose philosophy with her offer of liberation and purification, they turn and follow her wherever she leads...

For I go around doing nothing but persuading both young and old among you not to care for your body or your wealth in preference to or as strongly as for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: Wealth does no bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively

Doing good is a matter of looking after the part of yourself which matters most, namely your soul

Most excellent man, are you…not ashamed to care for the acquisition of wealth and for reputation and honor, when you neither care nor take thought for wisdom and truth and the perfection of your soul?

our souls also existed apart from the body before they took on human form, and they had intelligence.

And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the sight's being mislead by the colors, and every sort of confusion of this kind is plainly in our soul. And, then, it is because they take advantage of this affection in our nature that shadow painting, and puppeteering, and many other tricks of the kind fall nothing short of wizardry.

Der Missbrauch der Sprache lässt Böses in die Seele

This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.

Life is lived on the inside. What's outside doesn't matter.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

One cannot do such harm to another and not wound one's own soul in the process.

El arte habla al alma y al corazón, más que a la mente.

Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say. "May new sufferings torment your soul."

Immortality goes through dead before all.

The soul is a prolonged anniversary of our lives in this world.

Living a life that in fact lives them, as well as death dies them every moment since the triumphal birth in order to die.

Your soul fountain will never drain until the instant of eternity will halt before it to drink the water of death.

How much soul can include the self-salvation of sin?

Love, I know you before all times!

I have reached this world's dreams harbor as devoid of truth as any other soul that dreams it lives through knowledge.

The well of your soul will not experience the drought until in front of her will appear the moment of eternity to drink from the water of death.

Where else is the gate of life if not in the eyes of your soul?