Top 100 Own Soul Quotes
#1. The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
E. M. Forster
#2. The Kingdom of Heaven is within us. God is within us. He is the Soul of our souls. See Him in your own soul. That is practical religion. That is freedom.
Swami Vivekananda
#3. They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.
Austin O'Malley
#4. We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts
A.W. Tozer
#6. You have inside you the capacity to invest your mental, emotional, and spiritual gifts in a way that glorifies God, impacts the world, and satisfies your own soul. I believe that-and I want you to believe it, too.
David Jeremiah
#7. For even if we have the sensation of being always surrounded by our own soul, it is not as though by a motionless prison: rather, we are in some sense borne along with it in a perpetual leap to go beyond it.
Marcel Proust
#8. The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.
Mary MacLane
#9. Italy was offering her the most priceless of all possessions - her own soul.
E. M. Forster
#10. Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.
Hermann Hesse
#12. My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant
Babur
#13. One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.
D.H. Lawrence
#14. Above all, you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness ...
Virginia Woolf
#15. No one can rob us of our own soul, and our spirit is already one with the eternal goodness.
Ernest Holmes
#16. To want someone so desperately that you would sacrifice anything, actual human lives, possibly your own soul, to have it.
Rachel Van Dyken
#17. Nothing from outside can stop a man from enjoying lasting peace and permanent joy in life, for it is the essential nature of his own soul.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#18. The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.
Anonymous
#19. Yellow can express happiness, and then again, pain. There is flame red, blood red, and rose red; there is silver blue, sky blue, and thunder blue; every color harbors its own soul, delighting or disgusting or stimulating me.
Emil Nolde
#20. I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.
Elia Kazan
#21. When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish.
Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.
Rumi
#22. It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.
George Bernard Shaw
#23. to explore the inner country of his own soul.
Jon Krakauer
#24. Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.
George Jean Nathan
#25. A child comes from God, a child
is a gift from God, but a child is
not our possession.
Give the child unconditional love
and freedom. Respect the child, the child has its own soul. The child has its own way.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#26. Whether you're Huguenot or Catholic or Jewish or gypsy or short or have dark skin- or blue skin. Everyone is different. Each person has his or her own soul and is master of his or her own destiny.
Liz Braswell
#27. When the range and depth of the suffering of others and what we do to one another are no longer bothers us, nor moves us to remedy the situation and stop the pain, then we have lost a part of our own humanity, our own soul.
Megan McKenna
#28. The destiny of man is in his own soul.
Herodotus
#29. Every time you try to encourage someone else, your own soul will be flooded with a light and glow of peace and good cheer.
Susa Young Gates
#30. One foot in Hell, one in Heaven, but there will always be a devil.
Be he your enemy.
Be he your friend.
Be the devil your own soul for fear of the world.
Michelle Horst
#31. Weber warns that "he who seeks the salvation of the soul, his own soul and others, should not seek it along the avenue of politics.
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
#32. And I deeply pray that everyone discovers that they can strip away anything that might be holding them back on every level, and can begin living life from the real essence of their own soul.
Brandon Bays
#33. The ultimate authority of my life is not the Bible; it is not confined between the covers of a book. It is not something written by men and frozen in time. It is not from a source outside myself. My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.
Sue Monk Kidd
#34. If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore something in my own soul that I need to solve, I need to understand.
Isabel Allende
#35. Try saying this silently to everyone and everything you see for thirty days and see what happens to your own soul: I wish you happiness now and whatever will bring happiness to you in the future.
Joan D. Chittister
#36. I try to give each performance my own soul, to bring a truth to my character. Hopefully, when I bring that much truth to a character, it resonates with somebody, and it sparks some kind of emotion in them.
Jurnee Smollett
#37. The evolution of one's own soul is a process. It's not a quick fix. It's not a five-day workshop. It's a lifetime process where we let go, discover and then allow for futures to come into existence.
Debbie Ford
#39. Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.
Obafemi Awolowo
#40. One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.
Michael Apted
#41. But I'm always being invaded by others' souls so I can't see my own soul very well.
Shuntaro Tanikawa
#42. I will spend the rest of my life assembling my own mind and my own soul. I will take care of my body carefully, not that it may any more please a man, but because it houses me and therefore I am dependent upon it.
Pearl S. Buck
#43. We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.
Frances Harper
#44. One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#45. Souls! When have you seen your own soul - that you're so certain you have one?
Octavia Butler
#46. The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.
Ellen G. White
#47. The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!
Henry Ward Beecher
#48. The energies are what blows my mind. They drag everything out of you, and sometimes your own soul. You really have to mentally be stable, or else you'll lose it.
Zak Bagans
#49. Whoever, within his own soul and in human relations, escapes the dominion of force is loved but loved sorrowfully because of the threat of destruction that constantly hangs over him.
Simone Weil
#51. I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.
Ignazio Silone
#52. 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
#53. It's one of the things that makes us different than they are, Harry. The blood on their hands does not make it right to bloody my own. My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stains on theirs.
Jim Butcher
#54. And now each day seems,
Like my own soul, farther and farther off,
Lost in its light as in a dream in which I meant to ask you something.
Stanley Plumly
#55. The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place in their own soul where they could cry their beart out.
Alice Miller
#56. If you are going on with God, the only thing that is clear to you, and the only thing God intends to be clear, is the way He deals with your own soul.
Oswald Chambers
#57. The families I continue to hurt and leave broken break me, and the ghostly remains that linger through the aftermath of their shattered futures reflect back and crack the mirror of my own soul." - Rosetta
Ryan Hill
#58. The destiny of your own soul is in your own hands by the choice you make.
Billy Graham
#59. Engaging in Socratic question-and-answer dialectic is the key and indispensable means by which to sustain this commitment to care for one's own soul.
John M. Cooper
#60. Every building must have ... its own soul.
Louis Kahn
#61. By the way, Dorian, he (Lord Henry) said, after a pause, what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose - how does the quotation run? - his own soul?
Oscar Wilde
#62. When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.
Julia Ward Howe
#63. In fact, you don't have a soul, you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body or your mind. You are you.
L. Ron Hubbard
#64. The more that each of us tends our own soul, the more the world will prosper.
SARK
#65. If you hate somebody, first you have to wound your own soul in so many ways; you have to be so full of poison that you can throw poison on others.
Osho
#66. May you see in what you do the beauty of your own soul.
May the sacredness of your work bring healing, light and
renewal to those Who work with you and to those who see
and receive your work. May your work never weary you.
John O'Donohue
#67. I see myself living by correct principles and accomplishing worthy purposes. One of my favorite quotes is, "The greatest battles of life are fought out every day in the silent chambers of one's own soul." (David O. McKay).
Stephen Covey
#68. O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed.
John Keats
#69. I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?
Shailene Woodley
#70. One cannot do such harm to another and not wound one's own soul in the process.
Sophie Hannah
#71. I was hurrying through my own soul ... I was leaning out ... I was listening.
Mary Oliver
#72. Think of a space in your heart, and in the midst of that space think that a flame is burning. Think of that a flame is burning. Think of that flame as your own soul and inside the flame is another effulgent light, and that is the Soul of your soul, God. Meditate upon that in the heart.
Swami Vivekananda
#73. Can we really conquer chaos so easily? If that were so, I should be able to prune the pandemonium of my own soul into something neat and tidy rather than this maze of wants and needs and misgivings that has me forever feeling as if I cannot fit into the landscape of things.
Libba Bray
#74. Yet, after some time, he wearied of them, and would sit in his box at the opera, either alone or with Lord Henry, listening in rapt pleasure to "Tannhauser" and seeing in the prelude to that great work of art a presentation of the tragedy of his own soul.
Oscar Wilde
#75. I really hate pain. I'd pull my own soul out if it meant I could stop the pain.
Yun Kouga
#76. There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.
C. G. Jung
#77. Every man has power to 'lose his own soul' (Matthew 26:26).
J.C. Ryle
#78. A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.
Richard Flanagan
#79. I wish I could write 'Taxi Driver,' or 'Blue Velvet,' something brave, audacious, dramatic and dark. I don't know if I have the darkness in my own soul to be able to tap into it, unfortunately.
Stephen Merchant
#80. There lies the image of our past and of our future," cried Alleyne, as they rode on upon their way. "Now, which is better, to till God's earth, to have happy faces round one's knee, and to love and be loved, or to sit forever moaning over one's own soul, like a mother over a sick babe?" "I
Arthur Conan Doyle
#81. I have always quested and still do for the Holy Grail, but I stopped looking in the earthen caves and in the stars. I started questing through the valleys and mountains of my own soul.
David Paul Kirkpatrick
#82. The point is to strip down, get protestant, then even more naked. Walk over scorched bricks to find your own soul. Your heart a searching dog in the rubble.
Barry Hannah
#83. Every one of us has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.
J. Stevens
#84. It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield
W.B.Yeats
#86. Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.
Rumi
#87. And her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movements of her own soul and the agitations of the world
Henry James
#88. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius
#89. The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
Theodore Parker
#90. To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one.
Edgar Lee Masters
#92. Your horrific time of trouble offered you truths about yourself, windows into your own soul, and maps to the terrain of your inner life. Wise people learn to gather this intelligence to help them conquer themselves and then to live in loftier ways.
Stephen Mansfield
#93. Pray silently with simplicity every day to stay cool and calm in mind, composed and collected in heart; courageous and connected to own soul, to lay the way for a peaceful life.
Anuj
#94. To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.
D.H. Lawrence
#95. The old man in the beard he felt convinced was wrong. He was too busy saving his own soul. Wasn't it better to take part even in the crimes of people you loved, if it was necessary hate as they did, and if that were the end of everything suffer damnation with them rather than be saved alone?
Graham Greene
#97. We are not deceiving anyone, we are only deceiving our own soul [our own Self].
Dada Bhagwan
#98. Look in; and learn the wrong, and right,
From your own soul's unwritten laws.
And when you question, or demur,
Let Love be your Interpreter.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#99. From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.
Jones Very
#100. Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.
Vachel Lindsay
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