I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew. The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me that I can no longer call myself a man, a woman, an angel, or even a pure Soul. Love has befriended me so completely it has turned to ash and freed me of every concept and image my mind has ever known.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one’s soul.

The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements: fear and love. Love is of the soul. Fear is of the personality.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Happiness is a quality of the soul…not a function of one’s material circumstances.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.

Realise this: one day your soul
will depart from your body and you will
be drawn behind the curtain that floats between us
and the unknown. While you wait for that moment, be happy,
because you don’t know where you came from and
you don’t know where you will be going.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.

Love is the soul’s light.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

One day I realized that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can’t even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life. That’s when you can begin really looking for a relationship. When you can appreciate the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of the soul that its adventure will succeed.

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket.

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Love, peace and soul.

Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it.

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.