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Quotes About Soul

The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys: Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches, and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanised automaton.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs— To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind, While the touch of Nature's art Harmonizes heart to heart.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I love all waste and solitary places; where we taste the pleasure of believing what we see. Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The soul's joy lies in doing.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Away, away, from men and towns, / To the wild wood and the downs, — / To the silent wilderness, / Where the soul need not repress its music.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
when the power of imparting joy Is equal to the will, the human soul Requires no other heaven.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
But my soul, From sight and sense of the polluting woe Of tyranny, had long learned to prefer Hell's freedom to the servitude of heaven.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Yes! all is past — swift time has fled away, Yet its swell pauses on my sickening mind; How long will horror nerve this frame of clay? I'm dead, and lingers yet my soul behind.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Yes! all is past—swift time has fled away, Yet its swell pauses on my sickening mind; How long will horror nerve this frame of clay? I'm dead, and lingers yet my soul behind. Oh! powerful Fate, revoke thy deadly spell, And yet that may not ever, ever be, Heaven will not smile upon the work of Hell; Ah! no, for Heaven cannot smile on me; Fate, envious Fate, has sealed my wayward destiny.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep, that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
When inward tenderness Finds the secret hurt, Pain itself will crack the rock And, Ah! Let the soul emerge. — Rumi
~ Unknown
In the words of Shakespeare: "Now (our) my soul hath elbow room.
~ Unknown
The body has been designed to renew itself through continuous self-correction. These same principles also apply to the healing of psyche, spirit, and soul.
~ Peter A. Levine
Physicians and mental health workers today don't speak of retrieving souls, but they are faced with a similar task—restoring wholeness to an organism that has been fragmented by trauma. Shamanistic concepts and procedures treat trauma by uniting lost soul and body in the presence of community. This approach is alien to the technological mind. However, these procedures do seem to succeed where conventional Western approaches fail.
~ Peter A. Levine
He glanced at her in what she thought seemed a normal way. Everyone else was trying to peer into her soul, to measure the pain inside.
~ Peter Abrahams
It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?
~ Peter Ackroyd
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff -- it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
~ Peter De Vries
Worry is the Devil's disciple, it rots the soul.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
The holm, where her soul originated from, occupying the non-realm outside spacetime; both separate but still existing within the overall cosmos. Together, the two intersected, a contact which created the miracle that was the mind, animating flesh, delivering purpose to otherwise insensate clusters of mere organic chemistry.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
The Lord's universe was a lot bigger than the human soul was comfortable with.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
You are going to have to make considerable adjustments to your culture now you know humans have an immortal soul.
~ Peter F. Hamilton