Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
—Unknown
You must always learn to see yourself as a great advancing soul.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author
You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of your soul, but not if you desire them for the lists of the flesh.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author
We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
The soul on earth is an immortal guest, compelled to starve at an unreal feast; a pilgrim panting for the rest to come; an exile, anxious for his native home.
—Hannah More
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one’s talent, and one’s inner happiness.
—George Sand (1804–76) French Novelist, Dramatist
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words 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 (1749–1832) German Poet
Purity is the soul’s birthright. Let thoughts, words and actions be filled with this.
—Brahma Kumaris Indian Hindu Spiritual Group
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or disbelieve.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
—Plotinus (c.205–270 CE) Greek Philosopher, Founder of Neoplatonism
Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
—Meister Eckhart (c.1260–1327) German Christian Mystic
In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
—John of the Cross (1542–1591) Spanish Roman Catholic Mystic
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
—Simone Weil (1909–1943) French Philosopher, Political Activist
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, Sr. (1809–94) American Physician, Essayist
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946) American-British Essayist, Bibliophile
Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.
—Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson
A little body often harbors a great soul.
—Common Proverb
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts and contemplations.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
—Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian Mystic, Philosopher, Poet
Secrecy has been well termed the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions, than by discovering those of our enemy. But great men succeed in both.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life’s tragedy.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
—Rebecca West (1892–1983) English Author, Journalist, Literary Critic
The Soul is the voice of the body’s interests.
—George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher
I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.
—Unknown
The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719) English Essayist, Poet, Playwright, Politician
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
Leave a Reply