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Quotes about the soul and the life within. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest soul quotes ever written — from Rumi, Aristotle, Virginia Woolf and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.

Real love is able to awaken your soul and make you reach for more in life.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

— Rumi

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

— Rumi

Feelings are the weather of the soul; they change, and so do we.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

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

— Aristotle

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

— Virginia Woolf

When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.

— Rumi

Give thanks for the rain in your life which waters the flowers of your soul.

Nature always wears the colours of the spirit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

— Virginia Woolf

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

— Alexander Pope

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

— Emily Dickinson

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.

— Rumi

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

— C. S. Lewis

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

— Aristotle

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.

— Rumi

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

— Buddha

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

— Persian Proverb

Laughter is wine for the soul — laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness.

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