Top 200 Soul Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

102. “On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.”

— Eckhart Tolle

103. “Envy is the ulcer of the soul.”

— Socrates

104. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”

— Denis Waitley

105. “When you see your happiness in the happiness of others, that’s when you will be truly happy.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

106. “You have been a prisoner of a little pond. I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come, merge with me, leave this world of ignorance.”

— Rumi

107. “If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”

— Thomas Merton

108. “All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

109. “What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”

— Rumi

110. “All that I seek is already within me.”

— Louise Hay

111. “If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

112. “Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall. The ground is where humility lives. Take it. Learn it. Breathe it in. And then come back stronger, humbler and more aware of your need for Him. Come back having seen your own nothingness and His greatness.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

113. “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

— Pablo Neruda

114. “All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.”

— Swami Vivekananda

115. “Open your arms if you want the Beloved’s embrace.”

— Rumi

116. “When you say ‘yes’ to others, make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself.”

— Paulo Coelho

117. “Ask for nothing less than inspiration.”

— Deepak Chopra

118. “Nothing hurts a good soul and kind heart more than to live amongst people who can’t understand it.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

119. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

120. “Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.”

— Rumi

121. “And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”

— Rumi

122. “Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.”

— Rumi

123. “Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.”

— Joseph Campbell

124. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

125. “The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.”

— Rumi

126. “God is our portion, Christ our companion, the Spirit our Comforter, Earth our lodge, and Heaven is our home.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

127. “Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

128. “It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body – to cast it off like a disused garment. But I shall not cease to work! I shall inspire men everywhere, until the world shall know that it is one with God.”

— Swami Vivekananda

129. “I Wish I Could Give You A Taste Of The Burning Fire Of Love. There Is A Fire Blazing Inside Of Me. If I Cry About It, Or If I Don’t, The Fire Is At Work, Night And Day.”

— Rumi

130. “All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.”

— Swami Vivekananda

131. “Although my memory’s fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.”

— John Newton

132. “Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!”

— Rumi

133. “Shine like the whole universe is yours.”

— Rumi

134. “If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.”

— Rumi

135. “Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”

— C. S. Lewis

136. “Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.”

— Mahalia Jackson

137. “What are you afraid of? You are an immortal being. You are neither a man nor a woman, as you may think, but a soul – joyous, eternal.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

138. “If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

139. “At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window.”

— Rumi

140. “What hurts us is what heals us.”

— Paulo Coelho

141. “All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”

— Julian of Norwich

142. “I am not this hair. I am not this skin. I am the soul that lives within.”

— Rumi

143. “The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep!”

— Rumi

144. “Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”

— Rumi

145. “When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.”

— Rumi

146. “The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.”

— John Piper

147. “Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”

— Charlie Chaplin

148. “You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”

— Marcus Aurelius

149. “To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

150. “I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak.”

— Rumi