Quotes About Soul

To revile because one has been reviled—this is the real evil because it is the evil of the soul itself." Jesus saw this with almighty clarity. Again and again he came back to the inner life of the individual.

To revile because one has been reviled—this is the real evil because it is the evil of the soul itself.

How foolish it is, how terrible, if you have not found your Island of Peace within your own soul. It means you are living without the discovery of your true home.

It seems to me that we all have a dream of our own, our own personal vision, our own individual way of giving, but for many reasons we are afraid to pursue it, or to even recognize and accept its existence. But to deny our vision is to sell our soul.

The idea, so common in the ancient writers, is not all a poetic conceit, that the soul of a man is only a fragment of a larger whole, and goes out in search of other souls in which it will find its true completion. We walk among worlds unrealized, until we have learned the secret of love. We know this, and in our sincerest moments admit this, even though we are seeking to fill up our lives with other ambitions and other hopes.

The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful countenance, and it is the cheerful countenance that spreads cheer to make other hearts merry. The sunny soul brings sunshine everywhere. A bright and happy temperament is a great social asset, adding to the happiness of the world.

At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul.

The divine meaning of a true friendship is that it is often the first unveiling of the secret of love. It is not an end in itself, but has most of its worth in what it leads to, the priceless gift of seeing with the heart rather than with the eyes. To love one soul for its beauty and grace and truth is to open the way to appreciate all beautiful and true and gracious souls, and to recognize spiritual beauty wherever it is seen.

It is not easy to solve the problem of sorrow. Indeed there is no solution of it, unless the individual soul works out its own solution.

So las ich falsch in deinem Aug, dem tiefen? Kein heimlich Sehnen sah ich heiß dort funkeln? Es birgt zu deiner Seele keine Pforte Dein feuchter Blick? Die Wünsche, die dort schliefen, Wie stille Rosen in der Flut, der dunkeln, Sind, wie dein Plaudern: seellos... Worte, Worte?

The soul is never wholly assembled, except in delight.

The soul maintains it's deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

The people your brother killed - well, they all had souls. They weren't Satan. Ryu Yohan wasn't Satan, either. His faith was twisted, that's all. I know now. I know that God is innocent. (2007: 143)

Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this either by teaching or engaging in public affairs itself, correcting through its practice. And the purpose of action is to enable philosophy to continue, for if men are reduced to the material alone, they become no more than beasts.

All things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own.

In the end he sleeps because waiting is a dull, sick ache, like a tinnitus of the soul.

Y al final se queda dormido porque la espera es un dolor sordo y continuo, como un acúfeno del alma.

If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.

Si no puedes reír con frecuencia y autenticidad, no tienes alma.

And Rumi tells us, 'Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue'.

That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).

En el Sufismo, el alma humana (ruh) es aquello que es capaz de percibir la realidad objetiva.

Y Rumi nos dice: "El alma recibe a ese conocimiento desde el alma: por lo tanto, no a través de libros o de la lengua".