Top 90 Soul Search Quotes
#1. I question and soul-search constantly into myself to be as certain as I can that I am fulfilling the true meaning of my work, that I am maintaining my sense of purpose, that I am holding fast to my ideals, that I am guiding my people in the right direction.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#3. I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
Fernando Pessoa
#4. The all of God, the totality of His immensity, is known in the human heart through encountering divine mercy. The search for the Lord within is the effort to find those places in the substance of the soul where God's mercy and human misery touch each other, where one has bearing on the other.
Anthony Lilles
#5. When we give vent to the soul, to try what grace is there, corruption comes out; and when we search for corruption, grace appears. So
John Owen
#7. The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance.
Rumi
#8. Let us each day search from the scriptures and from the prophets ... . The scriptures that are never read will never help us. If read, the words of God will nourish our souls and carry us to great heights in our endeavors.
L. Tom Perry
#9. Reaction is just that - an action you have taken before. When you "re-act," what you do is assess the incoming data, search your memory bank for the same or nearly the same experience, and act the way you did before. This is all the work of the mind, not of your soul.
Neale Donald Walsch
#10. Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.
Paulo Coelho
#11. In our eagerness to solve life we start out to trace its mysteries and trample God's truths as we search. As we return we discover the shattered treasures, and gladly stoop to gather up the fragments, and with them translate the revelations of the soul.
Margaret Bird Steinmetz
#12. Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod
And where power and position are equated with the grace of God
These times are famine for the soul while for the senses it's a feast
From the edge of my country, as far as you see, looking east
Jackson Browne
#13. always was and would be a serious soul in search of serious ideas to be serious about. Nina
Amor Towles
#14. He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others.
Sharon Shinn
#15. It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.
Ricky Williams
#16. Thirsting for God O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. My soul thirsts for you; my whole body longs for you in this parched and weary land where there is no water. I have seen you in your sanctuary and gazed upon your power and glory. PSALM 63:1-2 NLT
Various
#19. Weigh the cost your yes will have on your spirit, your soul, and your body. You may have to search for your brave yes, but you will have to fight for your strong no.
Emily P. Freeman
#20. I didn't know someone whom I wasn't seeking, could make me feel like I didn't need to search anymore.
Nikki Rowe
#21. I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.
Henry Miller
#22. Stability of heart - commitment to the life of the soul, faithfulness to the community, perseverance in the search for God - is the mooring that holds us fast when the night of the soul is at its deepest dark, and the noontime sun sears the spirit. When
Joan D. Chittister
#23. Trust that through the balm of simplicity your frazzled and weary soul can discover the place where you ought to be. Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#24. Spirituality is a universal currency. It is part of every religion, every faith, and every person. Everybody has a belief system.
Emma Mildon
#25. To believe in coincidences, to believe in fate - it ties into the spiritual realm, to the idea that there is something universal out there, something looking out for you, watching over you, guiding you.
Emma Mildon
#26. We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.
James E. Faust
#27. Real joy, the kind that permeates your life and brings contentment to your soul comes from service. So no, happiness is not the word. Purpose. Contentment. Joy. To find those things, don't seek happiness. Search instead for those who need your gift and give it away.
Mia Sheridan
#28. Like the enotmologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
#29. Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and it does many beneficial things, meditation is first and foremost a search for the God within.
Ken Wilber
#30. Traveling on every path, you will not find the boundaries of soul by going; so deep is its measure.
Heraclitus
#31. Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds.
Philip James Bailey
#32. This path was not that of my conscious choosing. But after persistent subconscious confrontation, I have finally embraced what is, 'souly' for me ... and I am thankful, when called upon, to be able to share and give to those who seek their own way of the path.
T.F. Hodge
#33. I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable
Henry Miller
#34. Jung's search for the soul, then, stands at one with the search for appropriately dialogical and differentiated language.
C. G. Jung
#35. We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker of the best, We come back laden from out quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#37. GOD Has Planted in Your Heart [ ] The Desire To Search For HIM. Do Not Look At Your Weaknesses But Focus on The Search. Every Seeker is Worthy of This Search. Strive To Redouble Your Efforts, So That Your Soul May Escape From This Material Prison.
Rumi
#38. Some people search their whole lives searching for their soul mates.I had only an hour and a half to find mine.
Ellen Schreiber
#39. Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
Epicurus
#40. You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
Green Day
#41. Freemasonry is a science of symbols, in which, by their proper study, a search is instituted after truth, that truth consisting in the knowledge of the divine and human nature of God and the human Soul.
Albert Mackey
#42. In search of Magnum opus - perhaps you were divined to be mine.
Truth Devour
#43. I fumbled around in the basement of my soul in search of the small, sensible fellow who often comes to the rescue during emergencies. It looked like he wasn't home.
Max Frei
#44. Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one's words and one's soul.
Richard Flanagan
#46. Don't keep repeating, 'I'm going to do it.' Your soul already knows it. Obsession will not help you in search for your goal, and will end up spoiling the pleasure of the climb.
Paulo Coelho
#47. And my heart and soul is your heart and soul. I am Santiago the shepherd boy in search of my treasure, just as you are Santiago the shepherd bot in search of your own.
Paulo Coelho
#48. It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love if you search within your soul, and the emptiness you felt will disappear.
Mariah Carey
#49. A search of one's life and soul will reveal the hand of God. The outpouring of his blessings come with our afflictions, not in spite of them. Afflictions be praised!
Elaine A. Cannon
#50. You should look inside of yourself and see the person who is there
Sunday Adelaja
#51. The river wears away the rock to get to the ocean ... so it is with the soul in search of its creator.
L.G. Space
#52. You need to be confronted
By the Stranger on the shore
You need to have Him search your soul
You need to hear the call
You need to learn exactly
What it means for you to follow
You need to realize that He's asking for your all.
Michael Card
#53. I don't believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It's like I don't want to admit that maybe everything really is totally random ... that people are just molecules in the air, bumping into each other and floating away again.
-p150, NOTES TO SELF
Avery Sawyer
#54. There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
Josephine Hart
#55. The empty spaces of your soul are the ones you search for, pray for and want so desperately to be filled. They are also the spaces that will never be filled, until you are ready to do something you have never done.
Shannon L. Alder
#56. Creatures crawl in search of blood to terrorize your neighborhood. And whosoever shall be found without the soul for getting down, must stand and face the hounds of hell, and rot inside a corpse's shell.
Michael Jackson
#57. Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his continual search for that sober connection
intimacy with one person over a long period of time, as opposed to periods of intimacy with a bunch of random faces.
Jess C. Scott
#58. I believe everyone is on a spiritual path - some people know it, some don't. The ones that know it call themselves religious, spiritual, or Soul Searchers.
Emma Mildon
#59. I've learnt that there's a soul mate somewhere in this world. Till you don't find that person, the search goes on.
Preity Zinta
#60. The search for the soul mate, the perfect partner to complete you, is a bit like searching for the perfect food when you've got a giant ulcer in your stomach. No matter what you find, it will never be good enough.
Vironika Tugaleva
#61. Yes, it was her he was looking at, and there was meaning in his look. His eyes burned into her as though they would search her through and through, read her very soul.
James Joyce
#62. If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].
Heraclitus
#63. Each is deceived by the sense of finality peculiar to the stage of development at which he stands.
C. G. Jung
#64. Have you seen anybody dancing? He is totally aware of himself and dances his way in a manner as decided by his heart. Meditation is also similar to the dancer. You need not reach anyplace, you have to just delve deep in yourself to find the true self and be a Soul Searcher.
Maitreya Rudrabhayananda
#65. Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job.
Nikki Rowe
#66. Through the window of my soul and the mirror of my mind, I was looking for the beauty of my life. I could not find it, but I found it in the glint of a dew drop at the edge of a dancing leaf.
Debasish Mridha
#67. The Graces sought some holy ground,
Whose sight should ever please;
And in their search the soul they found
Of Aristophanes.
Plato
#68. But if you search further, you find in yourself nothing similar to God, but rather you affirm that God stands above all this as cause, origin, and the light of life of your intellective soul.
Nicholas Of Cusa
#69. Really now, search your soul, lovie-is the vampire so bad?
All he does is drink blood.
Richard Matheson
#70. In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks , and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child 's soul with poetry every day.
Hermann Hesse
#71. Then having drunk deep of the cup of wisdom I looked into the hearts of men, and there found I yet greater mysteries and was glad, for only in the Search for Truth could my Soul be stilled, and the flame within be quenched. Down
Dr. Diane England
#72. You can find a better you inside of you. Why don't you search for that?
Munia Khan
#74. How will it be when one of us alone Goes on that strange last journey of the soul? That certain search for an uncertain goal, That voyage on which no comradeship is known? ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#75. There is a silent beauty hidden amongst pain, if you sit in it you may never find it; if you grow through it, You'll find the treasure.
Nikki Rowe
#76. The search for peace is one of the ultimate quests of the human soul.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#77. Search your heart, search your soul, and when you find me there you'll search no more.
Bryan Adams
#78. Real Dreams don't require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require that you search your soul for that deep dream you put aside-and go for it. And watch your life light up.
Barbara Sher
#79. Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.
Stephen King
#80. Ikenna was a fragile, delicate bird; he was a sparrow. Little things could unbridle his soul. Wistful thoughts often combed his melancholic spirit in search of craters to be filled with sorrow.
Chigozie Obioma
#82. Seek me not in your richness, O dear, search not amidst the words talkative. Find me in the moments of loneliness, in the silence of your mighty soul. Within the void of intimate being this is me, the majestic blue - the cessation of all; and here your are in the celestial path.
Preeth Nambiar
#83. Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#84. Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#85. I value and honor the way that my suffering brings me to further search and surrender.
Maureen Brady
#87. Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.
Orson Scott Card
#88. Unless we are prepared to search our souls to discover what to say, and then how to say it effectively, we cannot expect to deal successfully with today's domestic and personal problems, not to mention those international issues on which our very lives depend.
Everett Case
#89. The whole Christ seeks after each sinner, and when the Lord finds it, he gives himself to that one soul as if he had but that one soul to bless. How my heart admires the concentration of all the Godhead and humanity of Christ in his search after each sheep of his flock.
Charles Spurgeon
#90. Spirituality is about oneness - one love, one seeker, one soul, and one spirituality that speaks to all people. No matter a person's fame, fortune, or faith, they are one with you.
Emma Mildon
