Soulfulness Quotes (page 89)

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• rich
• hard
• moments

It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him with contempt. And then suddenly a moment would arrive when some uncontrollable impulse would lay his soul bare, and you would behold in it such riches, such sensitivity and warmth, such a vivid awareness of its own suffering and the suffering of others, that the scales would fall from your eyes and at first you would hardly be able to believe what you had seen... Fyodor Dostoevsky

• soul
• envy
• disorder

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to. Plutarch

• soul
• brushes
• hi

Every artist dips his brush into his own soul. Henry Ward Beecher

• mind
• destiny
• dream

There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny. Victor Hugo

• soul
• memories
• player

Of all our games, love’s play is the only one which threatens to unsettle our soul, and is also the only one in which the player has to abandon himself to the body’s ecstasy. …Nailed to the beloved body like a slave to a cross, I have learned some secrets of life which are now dimmed in my memory by the operation of that same law which ordained that the convalescent, once cured, ceases to understand the mysterious truths laid bare by illness, and that the prisoner, set free, forgets his... Marguerite Yourcenar

• soul
• dead
• manly

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land. Walter Scott

• education
• humanity
• soul

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. Joseph Addison

• soul
• intelligent
• his

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul Robert Henri

• god
• learning
• devil

I know nothing of god or the devil. I have never learned a secret nor found a cure that would damn or save my soul. Anne Rice

• work
• heart
• soul

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

• soul
• wishes
• real

Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I dont want to confront him. I know he's real. I have seen his work. I walked in front of those eyes once. I wont do it again. I wont push my chips forward and stand up and go out to meet him. It aint just bein older. I wish that it was. I cant say that it's even what you are willin to do. Because I always knew that you had to be willin to die to even do this job. That was always true. Not to sound glorious about it or nothin... Cormac McCarthy

• light
• wall
• family

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations. Paramahansa Yogananda

• soul
• he
• hi

For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers. James Joyce

• life
• view
• fighting

Why go on clinging to this clod of earth, this way of life, why pay heed to what your neighbour says? It is so parochial to bind oneself to views which are no longer binding even a couple of hundred miles away. Orient and Occident are chalk-lines drawn before us to fool our timidity. I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated... Friedrich Nietzsche

• best
• different
• soul

The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened. Oprah Winfrey