Quotes About Soul Work

#1. A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms. - Author: John Dryden

#2. Ari is beautiful beyond comparison, and she has my heart and my soul for eternity. I thought I made that abundantly clear last night, but it appears I have further work to do. - Author: Siobhan Davis

#3. When tears come, I breathe deeply and rest. I know I am swimming in a hallowed stream where many have gone before. I am not alone, crazy, or having a nervous breakdown . . . My heart is at work. My soul is awake. - Author: Mary Margaret Funk

#4. To take full advantage of the potential in e-business, leaders must lead differently, and people must work together differently. Let's call this new way of working e-culture-the human side of the global information era, the heart and soul of the new economy. - Author: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#5. The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. - Author: Joan Miro

#6. Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our lord may wish to work in you. it is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one. - Author: Ignatius Of Loyola

#7. I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process. - Author: Vincent Van Gogh

#8. I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude ... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. - Author: Gary Snyder

#9. Mothers are the heart and soul of every life they touch. In them lies the beauty, depth and grandeur of life. Cherish the Children is an inspirational expression of the importance of a Mother's work. - Author: Jane Clayson Johnson

#10. Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned. - Author: Plato

#11. Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts. - Author: Henry Rollins

#12. Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors being inseparable from it in the mind of its creator and native to it from the hour of its birth. - Author: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

#13. Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed? - Author: Robert A. Cook

#14. They filled our lives so much, the films they were in made us laugh, think and cry. Through their work they shared a piece of our soul. We will miss them with the sadness with which we miss an old friend. - Author: Meryl Streep

#15. A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening. - Author: Kenny Loggins

#16. Your life is your teacher and whatever comes to you is the work of your soul. Things are never as they appear on the surface. Your lessons are woven into your losses and challenges and only you can figure out what they mean and allow them to change you. - Author: Karen Clark

#17. Work is therapy for the soul. - Author: Joseph B. Wirthlin

#18. My work is very controlled. I leave nothing to chance. Chance comes afterward ... Making a film is like cooking a pot au feu. You choose the best carrots, the best potatoes the best meat, etc., and you throw all that together - but if there's no soul, so to speak, it won't yield much. - Author: Philippe Claudel

#19. Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries. - Author: Ben Kingsley

#20. [He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work. - Author: Hillary Jordan

#21. The truth is, it is enough to live in this country. Just to live. Work isn't necessary for the salvation of the soul. - Author: Willa Cather

#22. Slay the idol of the seen, break the idols of performance, and believe the state of my house doesn't reflect the state of my soul...it's the priorities unseen - the prayers, the relationships, the love while doing the work - that hold the meaning, the merit. - Author: Ann Voskamp

#23. Hard work IS its own reward. Integrity IS priceless. Art DOES feed the soul. - Author: Marcus Samuelsson

#24. Giving birth is priestess work; it requires a woman to pass through a painful and dangerous initiation in which she journeys to the threshold between worlds and risks her own life to help another soul cross over. - Author: Jalaja Bonheim

#25. If you have the soul of a gardener, not for anything would you work with gloves on. - Author: Ruth Stout

#26. Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul immediately recognizes it and is drawn to the face of God. - Author: Margaret Brownley

#27. My soul has grown over the years, and some of my views have changed. As long as I am alive, I will continue to try to understand more because the work of the heart is never done. - Author: Muhammad Ali

#28. Oh, but a real princess would know that hard work ennobles the soul,' Rose objected. 'That would be one of the signs. - Author: Regina Doman

#29. Fame is a spiritual drug. It is often a by-product of our artistic work, but like nuclear waste, it can be a very dangerous by-product. - Author: Julia Cameron

#30. Life on the blue part of the globe for eight years had suited me - the wild open spaces, the bliss of buoyancy, the volatile, soul-powered wind. Sailing had struck a nerve both primal and poetic. On and near the ocean life made sense, It made every sense work. - Author: Kaci Cronkhite

#31. I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can't be one in my body. - Author: Fernando Pessoa

#32. Football has to work really hard to put a smile on people's face and not to be so focused on the question of money. Everything is in danger of losing its soul if you're always going to sell out to the highest bidder. - Author: Gordon Taylor

#33. Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's. - Author: David Whyte

#34. The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work. - Author: Seth Godin

#35. To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean," says the persevering soul, "at my will mountains will crumble up." Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal. (I. - Author: Swami Vivekananda

#36. There's no point putting your heart and soul into a part when you know in advance it isn't worth the trouble. I'm not speaking as a dedicated actress. Enthusiasm and hard work are requisites for any job a person undertakes. I tried working just for money once and it made me almost physically ill. - Author: Lizabeth Scott

#37. Every year you work in Hollywood takes a year off your soul. - Author: Calista Flockhart

#38. I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work. - Author: Kathy Bates

#39. Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality. - Author: Henri Bergson

#40. Your separation from God is the hardest work you will ever do. - Author: Hafez

#41. At your most daring moments you believe that what is going on is the ultimate human work the shaping of a soul. The power of life comes from within; go there; pray; meditate. Reach for those luminous places in yourself. - Author: Jean Shinoda Bolen

#42. It is sad to see people do things without putting their soul and heart into it. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. To be grafted to soul means to be open to the life that pools deep inside you, allowing it to coalesce into a career or other kind of work. - Author: Thomas Moore

#44. If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure. - Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

#45. Truth is a very different thing from fact; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent. It does not work in the soul independently of all faculty or qualification there for setting it forth or defending it. Truth in the inward parts is a power, not an opinion. - Author: George MacDonald

#46. A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions. - Author: Dan Colen

#47. A man must earn his daily bread by some means some-where, and if his bread fails to nourish his soul, at least his body will be nourished while his soul suffers. - Author: Jose Saramago

#48. Your work has been described as touching the soul of the reader. That's the way I felt. Feel. Honestly. You've touched my soul. I'm sorry if I sound like a middle-aged librarian at a book-autographing session. - Author: W.P. Kinsella

#49. To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men. - Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#50. Labour is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul. - Author: W.B.Yeats

#51. While passing through an obscure nook of Notre Dame cathedral, Victor Hugo noticed the Greek work for fate carved in the stone. He imagined a tormented soul driven to engrave this word. From this seed sprang his monumental novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame. - Author: Alexander Steele

#52. I don't want to make any judgments, and I don't want to preach, but I'm hoping that marriage can work: that when people do fall in love, when people do find their soul mate, everyone sticks to it. It has the potential to be a very powerful thing, marriage. - Author: Jonathan Silverman

#53. There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him. - Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#54. All work and no play is not good for the soul - Author: Felix Sabates

#55. I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine. - Author: Beth Ditto

#56. Twenty-five years old this day. 'Bless the Lord, O my soul,' for all His goodness. Man is immortal till his work is done. Use me in Thy service alone, blessed Saviour. - Author: Alexander Murdoch Mackay

#57. You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do ... I honestly do ... From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul. I'm truly happy. - Author: Aaliyah

#58. The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul. - Author: Charles Handy

#59. Live on the divine Eucharist, like the Hebrews did on the Manna. Your soul can be entirely dedicated to the divine Eucharist and very holy in the midst of your work and contacts with the world. - Author: Peter Julian Eymard

#60. For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work. - Author: Ciaran Hinds

#61. I'm a free soul who hates paying attention to things I am not interested in. Consequently, I have rarely been comfortable in the role of 'employee.' - Author: Steven Solomon

#62. A person's work allows their character to form and provides a creative outlet for their inner world of imaginative thoughts and creative impulses. A person whom fails to find suitable work that allows their soul room to grow will quickly begin eroding into a withered and desiccated being. - Author: Kilroy J. Oldster

#63. That soul is dead to which the Spirit of Christ is not given in the work of regeneration; and all its works are dead works. - Author: John Flavel

#64. Life on the farm had fed his soul since he was a child. he was ever grateful to Gott for giving him a chance to work the land and live by the seasons. It was a good life...but a lonely one for a man his age, a man too old to be living with his family. - Author: Rosalind Lauer

#65. Lord our God, restore us again by the repose of sleep after the fatigue of our daily work, so that, continually renewed by your help, we may serve you in body and soul. Through Christ our Lord, Amen. The Lord grant us a quiet night and a perfect end. AMEN - Author: Uniersalis Publishing

#66. We are learning to work with intuition, which actually is Soul giving us gentle guidance to make our life better. - Author: Harold Klemp

#67. The goal of the soul is to work toward enlightenment. - Author: Jodi Livon

#68. Just as we cast off worn clothes and wear new ones, when the time arrives, the soul casts off the body and finds a new one to work out its karma. Therefore the wise grieve neither for the living nor the dead. - Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#69. Mrs. Weslin was one of those women who had clearly had some work done. That or she had sold her soul to the devil and although that was probably a possibility, I was pretty sure none of the Weslins had souls to sell. - Author: Joann I. Martin Sowles

#70. There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little. - Author: Grenville Kleiser

#71. The mind and the soul must work together if you are to experience true bliss. Try not to spend too much time exclusively in your mind. It is a magnificent tool, but it has a limited perspective. - Author: Neale Donald Walsch

#72. A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet. - Author: Alice Walker

#73. As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play; until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train. - Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

#74. I know some people find the idea of soul mates romantic, or comforting, but to me believing in soul mates means absolving yourself of any responsibility for your own happiness. If a relationship doesn't work out
whoops! It wasn't meant to be. Fuck meant to be. - Author: Anna Jarzab

#75. Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards. - Author: David Soul

#76. Having something commissioned made it easier for me to share my work and see it out there and have people read it without feeling like there was a piece of my soul on the page. - Author: Paula Hawkins

#77. You have nothing to do but to save souls; therefore spend and be spent in this work. - Author: John Wesley

#78. One of the things I have come to know most surely in my work is that the belief system acquired in childhood is never fully escaped; it may submerge itself for a while, but it always returns in times of need to lay claim to the soul it shaped. - Author: Kate Morton

#79. This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul. - Author: Morrissey

#80. All we are is our ideas, or people. That's what keeps us going to work in the morning, to hang around these great bright people. I've always thought that recruiting is the heart and soul of what we do. - Author: Steve Jobs

#81. With your votes you are working for your future. It is not a holiday; it is the most serious day of work since you were born. Better to come in clothing dirty from work than with your soul filthy from having sold your right to justice. - Author: Luis Munoz Marin

#82. You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I'm sure you'll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul. - Author: Stephenie Meyer

#83. O Lord, be magnified for your wondrous works. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#84. And remember: you must not overwork your body, or your soul. You must not enslave yourself, as you would not enslave any other person. You must be the custodian of your self. - Author: Joyce Carol Oates

#85. In a sense, it's less about seeing how high up I can vault than about seeing how deeply I can explore my potential ... Ambition for me is about the willingness to work, the ability to mine my own soul fearlessly. - Author: Renee Fleming

#86. He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul. - Author: Zhuangzi

#87. Hard work is good for the soul, and it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself because you don't have time. - Author: Dave Thomas

#88. All work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there, to wake up the soul. The power is inside every man, so is knowing; the different works are like blows to bring them out, to cause these giants to wake up. - Author: Swami Vivekananda

#89. For if there was to be any transformation in the spiritual orientation of the pilgrim's soul, that change would take place not on arrival as if by magic, but in the long, hard work of The Way. - Author: Stephen R. Lawhead

#90. Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools. - Author: David Soul

#91. Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for? - Author: Camille Pissarro

#92. If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life in a much more deep way. I believe the artist and the man work parallel, with the same feelings, the same soul, the same sensitivity. - Author: Jose Carreras

#93. With any free time I have, I'd take a high energy work out class at Soul Cycle, grab an outdoor bite somewhere by the beach and then finish it off by lounging at my pool. - Author: Tia Mowry

#94. You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth. - Author: Khalil Gibran

#95. When you experience permanent bliss of the Self (samadhi), then it will be considered that your entire work is completed. - Author: Dada Bhagwan

#96. The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul. The soul must work its way out of prison, and, in doing so, provide itself with wings for a future journey. It is for each of us to determine whether our wings shall be those of an angel or a grub! - Author: William Gilmore Simms

#97. I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again. - Author: Anna Akhmatova

#98. I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing. - Author: Paulo Coelho

#99. I got a Lucifer soul. I'll be the Devil's son, Devil's work, gettin' work. - Author: Schoolboy Q

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You gotta be categorical. - Author: Louis-Ferdinand Celine