Soul Quotes

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A newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free, but facts are sacred.

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

We love in another's soul
whatever of ourselves
we can deposit in it;
the greater the deposit,
the greater the love.

Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the White Hand Of Moses on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
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There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

Coretta Scott King

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

William Ellery Channing

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

It is the hour to rend thy chains, The blossom time of souls.

Katherine Lee Bates

If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever.

George Whitefield

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale and thus become a determinant in artistic creation.

Wassily Kandinsky

He who binds
His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the living heart.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Theodore Dreiser

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.

Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.

George Ripley (transcendentalist)

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

Oswald Spengler

For I've read in many a novel that, unless they've souls that grovel,
Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

Charles Stuart Calverley

For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest me deeply, but I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Berthold Auerbach