“Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep, — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, en.wikiquote.org
“Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.”— Anton Chekhov, amazon.com
“It’s easy to take off your clothes and have sex. People do it all the time. But opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams… that is being naked”— Rob Bell, amazon.com
“You see the soul of the rivers. Rivers that have just been reborn in the sea. They will rise to the sky, and remain there until, for whatever reason, they once again become rain and fall to the earth.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Because when words are written with feelings and the soul, they do not forget that their destination is the ocean of a text, and that sooner or later they have to arrive there.”— Paulo Coelho, paulocoelhoblog.com
“The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, goodreads.com
“Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org
“Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the process loses his soul.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, books.google.com
“Be glad you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, davar.net
“He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.”— Robert Jordan, amazon.com
“He was a child; but he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and without the key of love he let no one into his soul.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.”— Robert Frost, en.wikiquote.org
“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.”— Caroline Myss, iamgenie.org
“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com
“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”— John Milton, amazon.com
“There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.”— Victor Hugo, amazon.com
“Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.”— Ezra Taft Benson, lds.org