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What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière)

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. (Quote by - Cicero)

Upturned toward the sun, eyes closed. That color and warmth I see and feel is the soul on fire. If only it remained when again my eyes opened. (Quote by - Jeb Dickerson)

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint)

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way. (Quote by - Vincent Van Gogh)

When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy. When action come from another section, the feeling disappears. (Quote by - Jalal ad-Din Rumi)

I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. (Quote by - W. E. Henley)

I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. (Quote by - Henry Van Dyke)

A soul as white as Heaven. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)

A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. (Quote by - John Dryden)

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, Necessity and Freewill. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul. (Quote by - Plato)

The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to the sun. (Quote by - John Greenleaf Whittier)

I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell." (Quote by - Omar Khayyam)

Soul shadows you everywhere. (Quote by - Anda Fiori)

The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)

And he that makes his soul his surety, I think, does give the best security. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. (Quote by - Ferdinand Foch)

Lord of oneself, uncumbered with a name. (Quote by - John Dryden)

John Brown's body lies a mould'ring in the grave, His soul goes marching on. (Quote by - Thomas Brigham Bishop)

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. (Quote by - Cicero)

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (Quote by - Matthew)

A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer's day. (Quote by - Richard Crashaw)

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? (Quote by - Horace)

This ae nighte, this ae nighte Every nighte and all; Fire and sleete, and candle lighte And Christe receive thye saule. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. (Quote by - Saint Aurelius Augustine)

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time. (Quote by - Carl Jung)

And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again. (Quote by - Robert Browning)

What is soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room. (Quote by - Ray Charles)

In your patience possess ye your souls. (Quote by - Bible)

Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

From the looks--not the lips, is the soul reflected. (Quote by - M'Donald Clarke)

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul. (Quote by - Geoffrey Fisher)

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time. (Quote by - Timothy Leary)

But each day brings from its pretty dust Our soon choked souls to fill. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)

You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out. (Quote by - Martha Graham)

My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law. (Quote by - Bible)

But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

My father was an eminent button-maker at Birmingham, but I had a soul above buttons. (Quote by - George Colman)

Souls wouldn't wear suits and ties, they'd wear blue jeans and sit cross-legged with a glass of red wine. (Quote by - Carrie Latet)

Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. (Quote by - W. E. Henley)

A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify: A never-dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky. (Quote by - Charles Wesley)

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. (Quote by - Anne Sexton)

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Quote by - Bible)

And see all sights from pole to pole And glance, and nod, and bustle by, And never once possess our soul Before we die. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy. (Quote by - Woody Allen)