Home » Soul Soul 1 I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! Victor Hugo Art, Myself, Soul Add to Collection 2 A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable. Victor Hugo Soul, Talent, Real Add to Collection 3 Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings. Victor Hugo Beautiful, Poetry, Soul Add to Collection 4 There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. Victor Hugo Thoughts, Soul, Moments Add to Collection 5 Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. Victor Hugo Attitude, Soul, Thoughts Add to Collection 6 One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. Victor Hugo Soul, Will, Almost Add to Collection 7 The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. Victor Hugo Soul, Live, Real Add to Collection 8 The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. Victor Hugo Bird, Soul, Wings Add to Collection 9 Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. Victor Hugo Stars, Light, Soul Add to Collection 10 There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. Victor Hugo Sky, Sea, Soul Add to Collection 11 Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul. Martin Luther King, Jr Giving, Sympathy, Soul Add to Collection 12 Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. William James Life, Thinking, Soul Add to Collection 13 An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress. William Butler Yeats Man, Soul, Hands Add to Collection 14 Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. William Butler Yeats Soul, Energy, Stronger Add to Collection 15 The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled. William Blake Soul, Sweet, Delight Add to Collection 16 Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. William Blake Age, Man, Soul Add to Collection 17 If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore something in my own soul that I need to solve, I need to understand. Isabel Allende Writing, Book, Soul Add to Collection 18 If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die. Isabel Allende Soul, Die, My Soul Add to Collection 19 'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants. Isaac Newton Respect, God, Soul Add to Collection 20 For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul? Jesus Christ Man, Soul, World Add to Collection 21 An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be. Wayne Dyer Work, Path, Soul Add to Collection 22 Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing. Wayne Dyer Writing, Soul Add to Collection 23 Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul. Wayne Dyer Soul, Yourself, Body Add to Collection 24 Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. Walt Whitman Truth, Soul, Whatever Add to Collection 1 2 3 next › last »
