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When you say a man has guts, you say he has a soul. - Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)


Until you know that life is interesting — and find it so — you haven't found your soul. - Geoffrey Fisher


The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.
- John Greenleaf Whittier, My Psalm


You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. - C.S. Lewis


The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.  - Carl Jung


The soul lives unstably in the body, and is capable of mysterious transformations. - W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919


Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.  - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.  - Henry David Thoreau


A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.  - Plato


We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Quotation and Originality," Letters and Social Aims, 1876


What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.  - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière


Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man!  Give me the spirit.  - William Shakespeare


I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings.  For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.  - Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.  - Anne Sexton


One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.  I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.  - Lord Byron


Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?  - Horace


Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.  - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations


When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.  - Octave Mirbeau


How strange a thing this is!  The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.  - Oscar Wilde


Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.  - Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Following the Equator, 1897


You are a beautiful soul hidden by the trench coat of the ego. - Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife


If you hide things in your soul, don't forget about them. - Terri Guillemets




Whatever the mind does, the soul has perforce to suffer the consequences of it, because the soul and the mind are knotted together. - Maharaj Charan Singh Ji


When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy.  When action come from another section, the feeling disappears.  - Rumi





With all your science - can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?  - Henry David Thoreau


Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth."  Say not, "I have found the path of the soul."  Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path."  For the soul walks upon all paths.  The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.  The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.  - Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923


One thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson


Soul shadows you everywhere. - Terri Guillemets


[T]he soul and body are the same shape,—that the soul is not a speck or spot in the heart, or brain,—a something and nothing, but that it inhabits every part of the body, and thus its seat is all over the body. - James Gillingham (1838–1924), The Seat of the Soul Discovered or the World's Great Problem Solved, with Objections to the Same Answered, second edition, 1870


"Great thoughts come from the heart," not the mind. To the soul alone, therefore, belong the thoughts that reunite, to the mind those that divide. - Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), Philosophy. First Section: Pure Philosophy. Chapter II.—Metaphysics. II. Logic— 3. Problem of Cognition, Outlines of Philosophy and Literature, edited by ‎Jean Frédéric Astié, 1865


We need it
but apparently
it needs us
for some reason too.
- Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012), "A Few Words on the Soul," Moment, 2002, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh


What is soul?  It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.  - Ray Charles


...a soul flowering with spirituality. - Terri Guillemets


Webs of strange patterns we weave (each owns)
From colour and soul; and like unto these,
Soul has its tones and semitones,
Mind has its major and minor keys.
- Amy Levy, "In a Minor Key (An Echo from a Larger Lyre)," c.1884


Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.  - Cicero


Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.  - Timothy Leary


The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.  - Josiah Gilbert Holland


It would be idle to say that life is a steady progression in happiness. But it is most certain that in the natural course of things a healthy soul grows continually richer until its latest day on earth. - George S. Merriam


Living is being born slowly.  It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.  - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942


[E]very spiritual activity leaves traces, not only in the soul but also in the body; must then, if apoplexy or age destroy corporeal activity, must the soul's fire be therefore quenched? - Jean Paul Fr. Richter, "506th Station," The Campaner Thal: or, Discourses on the Immortality of the Soul, translated from German by Juliette Bauer


The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.  - Ferdinand Foch


One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it.  Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.  - Vincent Van Gogh


[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul... - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nominalist and Realist"


You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.  - Martha Graham


Anticipation Awakes the Passion, Vision Ignites the Heart, Touch Erupts the Soul. - Craig D. Slovak


Souls wouldn't wear suits and ties, they'd wear blue jeans and sit cross-legged with a glass of red wine. - Terri Guillemets


I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.  - Woody Allen