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 truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body
Martin Luther
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
Oscar Wilde
With every rising of the sun, Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays; there let them sleep. Concern yourself with but today, Woo it, and teach it to obey Your will and wish. Since time began Today has been the friend of man; But in his blindness and his sorrow, He looks to yesterday and tomorrow. You, and today! a soul sublime, And the great pregnant hour of time, With God himself to bind the twain! Go forth, I say-attain, attain! With God himself to bind the twain!
Ella Wilcox
Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself
Elias A. Ford
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
Euripides
My soul may be returned to the heavens but my heart will remain with you for all eternity.
Richard Dominguez
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
Edward R. Murrow
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities --a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces --a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
Joseph Conrad
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
Andre Gide