Soul Inspiring Quotes: A Collection to Uplift Your Spirit

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

- Berthold Auerbach

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

- Rebecca West

"The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul."

- Dorothy Day

"Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul."

- Emily Carr

"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation."

- Michael Jackson

"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul."

- John Dalberg-Acton

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."

- Judy Garland

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

- Emily Dickinson

"A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living."

- Rudolf Steiner

"After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer."

- William R. Alger

"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."

- Nelson Mandela

"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."

- Walt Whitman

"For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?"

- Jesus Christ

"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

- Aristotle

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

- Saint Augustine

"Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."

- Swami Sivananda

"Beauty awakens the soul to act."

- Dante Alighieri

"Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us."

- Martin Luther

"Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold."

- Bob Marley

"Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers."

- Rumi

"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened."

- Anatole France

"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."

- Stella Adler

"A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul."

- Minna Antrim

"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him."

- Booker T. Washington

"The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness."

- Joan Miro

"Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts."

- Paramahansa Yogananda

"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul."

- Alfred Austin

"Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions."

- Paulo Coelho

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."

- Mark Twain

"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul."

- Luther Burbank

"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."

- Swami Vivekananda

"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."

- Muhammad Ali

"The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them."

- Charles Bukowski

"My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness."

- Michelangelo

"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive."

- Eleonora Duse

"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."

- Helen Keller

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

- Plato

"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."

- Democritus

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."

- Napoleon Hill

"There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it."

- Mickey Hart

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."

- Carl Jung

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

- Marcus Aurelius

"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."

- George Bernard Shaw

"To have another language is to possess a second soul."

- Charlemagne

"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."

- John Muir

"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."

- Thomas Carlyle

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire."

- Jennifer Lee

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."

- Roald Dahl

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."

- Ferdinand Foch

"A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults."

- Charles Kingsley

"In the end, I'm really interested in people and what we do with our short time here on earth. I'm interested in the human soul."

- Luis Alberto Urrea

"Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all."

- Nelson Mandela

"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live."

- Victor Hugo

"Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough."

- Mary McLeod Bethune

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one."

- John Ruskin

"Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented."

- Arnold Palmer

"Cinema and the arts invite viewers to focus on a story and, in doing so, peel away its layers and peer into the depths of the human soul."

- Forest Whitaker

"I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments."

- Jim Morrison

"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail."

- Theodore Dreiser

"A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul."

- Jillian Michaels

"The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul."

- Ralph Peters

"Do anything, but let it produce joy."

- Walt Whitman

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."

- George Washington

"Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul."

- Maria Montessori

"The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul."

- Alfred Adler

"The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread."

- D. H. Lawrence

"Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the human soul. The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence."

- Sue Monk Kidd

"School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American."

- W. E. B. Du Bois

"God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection."

- Alfred Adler

"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul."

- Simone Weil

"It's a fantastic mirror to us to engage with art, to engage with paintings that are about tragedy, to go see Shakespearean comedies, to read a Greek play... We have always investigated the lightness and darkness of the human soul, in all these forms. So why not do it on television?"

- Holly Hunter

"I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language."

- Will Oldham

"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods."

- Iris Murdoch

"Wake up and live."

- Bob Marley

"Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death."

- Whittaker Chambers

"Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has led generation after generation from lower religious and ethical standards to higher ones which often clash with worldly advantages."

- Ellen Key

"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

"If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got."

- Kurt Cobain

"Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened."

- James E. Faust

"Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul."

- Jones Very

"There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems."

- Walter Lippmann

"The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!"

- Maria Mitchell

"The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest."

- Albert Barnes

"The subjects I wanted to write about - the mystery of the human soul, evil - didn't interest newspapers, and news reporting bored me."

- Svetlana Alexievich

"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."

- Tony Robbins

"With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity."

- Francis Arinze

"Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career."

- Antonio Banderas

"The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty."

- Nikos Kazantzakis

"What might have been can be with Cosmic Ordering."

- Stephen Richards

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."

- Karl Marx

"Believe all things are possible with Cosmic Ordering."

- Stephen Richards

"The writer is the engineer of the human soul."

- Joseph Stalin

"Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul."

- Jamie Lyn Beatty

"Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee."

- David Mallet

"Follow feelings of ease and joy to find out where your soul would like to take you."

"Listen. That little voice is your soul leading you to your purpose."

"The Universe is always ready to provide more. The real question is, are you ready to receive it?"

"The best way to live a life of positivity and optimism is to believe, all the way to your soul, that you deserve it."

"Don't force it; if there isn't flow, let it go."

"My life is never influenced by death because I am full of resurrections after so many spiritual and emotional demises."

"Those who move forward with a happy spirit will find that things will always work out."