Quotes About Soul

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming Throws his shadow on the floor, And my soul from out that shadow, That lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted - nevermore.

A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison.

Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and overlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.

Open confession is good for the soul.

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more "manhood" to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.

The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

For mem'ry has painted this perfect day. With colors that never fade, And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made

There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul.

The camel, at the close of day, Kneels down upon the sandy plain To have his burden lifted off And rest again. My soul, thou too should to thy knees When daylight draweth to a close, And let thy Master lift the load And grant repose.

Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. - Her lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies! -

Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

If of thy mortal goods thoU art bereft, And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left, Sell one, and with the dole Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune, the very ventilation of the soul.

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which we seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

To them that ask, where have you seen the Gods, or how do you know for certain there are Gods, that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue.

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.