Spirituality Quotes

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

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

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

"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls."

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

"Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead."

"A sweet friendship refreshes the soul."

"To err is human, to forgive, divine."

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

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

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

"My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it's magical."

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."

"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."

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

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

"Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul."

"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."

"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service."

"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist."

"Beauty awakens the soul to act."

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

"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."

"When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator."

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

"Love is the beauty of the soul."

"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."

"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled."

"Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention."

"The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking."

"Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls."

"But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul."

"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."

"This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say."

"I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster."

"I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office."

"My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest."

"I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god."

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

"Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them."

"The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities."

"Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you."

"Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul."

"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion."

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."