When you say a man has guts, you say he has a soul. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
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
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 Frenc
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
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
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
You are a beautiful soul hidden by the trench coat of the ego. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife
The defects of the soul are like wounds in the body — whatever care one takes to heal, the scar still appears, and they are every moment in danger of reopening. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)
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
Upturned toward the sun, eyes closed. That color and warmth I see and feel is the soul on fire. If only it remained when again my eyes opened. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com
With all your science – can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul? – Henry David Thoreau
One thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul shadows you everywhere. – Terri Guillemets
“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. C
…a soul flowering with spirituality. – Terri Guillemets
There are relapses in the disorders of the soul as well as in those of the body. What we take to be our cure is most often nothing but an intermission or a change of the disorder. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)
