Soul Quotes
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"The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. "
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories."
-George Eliot
-George Eliot
"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."
-Charles Bukowski
-Charles Bukowski
"There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery."
-Joseph Conrad
-Joseph Conrad
"Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own webs from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch."
-John Dryden
-John Dryden
"Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone."
-Jaron Lanier
-Jaron Lanier
"Oh soul,you worry too much.You have seen your own strength.You have seen your own beauty.You have seen your golden wings.Of anything less,why do you worry?You are in truththe soul, of the soul, of the soul."
-Jalal Ad din Rumi
-Jalal Ad din Rumi
"Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave."
-Theodore Dreiser
-Theodore Dreiser
"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties."
-Henry David Thoreau
-Henry David Thoreau
"Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
