"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
— Aristotle

"What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul"
— Victor Hugo

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"Books are the mirrors of the soul."
— Virginia Woolf (Between the Acts)

"Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open."
— Natalie Goldberg (Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within)

"I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts."
— Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

"Music is an outburst of the soul."
— Frederick Delius

""If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.""
— Drew Barrymore

"What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God."
— Hubert Van Zeller

"Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. "
— Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

"I write, not for the sake of glory, not for the sake of fame, not for the sake of success, but for the sake of my soul."
— Rachel Joy Scott

"I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts."
— Douglas Coupland (The Gum Thief: A Novel)

"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
— Thomas More

"Bound souls. He had always thought the stories of men and women bound throughout all eternity by the strength of passion, either love or hate, were but pleasant tales for long winter’s nights. Bound souls, two sides of the same counter, together through all the lives of the souls, and forever before and afterward. But he recognized the woman just as surely as she recognized him, and he knew the tales were true."
— Ann Marston (The Western King)

"I am not my body. My body is nothing without me."
— Tom Stoppard (Rock 'n' Roll: A New Play)

"Beauty is the illumination of your soul."
— John O'Donohue (Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom)

"Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin."
— Eric Clapton

"You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body."
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never do back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfillment."
— John O'Donohue (Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom)

"For-soothe my aching soul that is my wind, set hearts from there cages to fall a sinking sound. And the light shall purify and a feild of love will open up a new world."
— Jeremiah Wilson

"Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey."
— John O'Donohue (Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom)

"Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion."
— George Eliot (Middlemarch (Barnes & Noble Classics))

"Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history."
— Nikolai Berdyaev

"All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You feel the inspiration of its possibilities and the wonder of its mysteries."
— John O'Donohue (Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom)

"Jemanden zu beeinflussen bedeutet, ihm eine fremde Seele zu geben."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate."
— George Eliot (The Mill on the Floss)

"Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence."
— John O'Donohue (Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom)

"At the conclusion of all our studies we must try once again to experience the human soul as soul, and not just as a buzz of bioelectricity; the human will as will, and not just a surge of hormones; the human heart not as a fibrous, sticky pump, but as the metaphoric organ of understanding. We need not believe in them as metaphysical entities -- they are as real as the flesh and blood they are made of. But we must believe in them as entities; not as analyzed fragments, but as wholes made real by our contemplation of them, by the words we use to talk of them, by the way we have transmuted them to speech. We must stand in awe of them as unassailable, even though they are dissected before our eyes."
— Melvin Konner

"...I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche..."
— James Hillman (The Soul's Code)

"‘This is [her] soul group.’
‘What do you mean?’
‘It’s a group of souls with whom she resonates closely.’"
— James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision)