Quotes about soul-searching

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Sound soul commence and end your day with meditation.

Dennis Sharpe - Wednesday

I’ve done some soul searching… Looked deep within myself, ya know? I've reached the conclusion that 'Fuck You!' is my spirit animal, and some mother fuckers are going to pay. You can help me or you can walk… but I’m in this. I’m in ‘til the end,” Wednesday said.

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

Witnessing the moonrise each month, a person cannot resist noting a modest sense of optimism tugging at his or her enclosed capsule of bodily fluids.

Fiona Wood - Cloudwish

How many times do your feet have to press down on a path before they make an imprint, before pieces of soul start sticking?

Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Phædrus wrote a letter from India about a pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailas, the source of the Ganges and the abode of Shiva, high in the Himalayas, in the company of a holy man and his adherents.He never reached the mountain. After the third day he gave up, exhausted, and the pilgrimage went on without him. He said he had the physical strength but that physical strength wasn’t enough. He had the intellectual motivation but that wasn’t enough either. He didn’t think he had been arrogant but though

Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon

Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operations.

Laurie Halse Anderson - Speak

I can't do everything for you. You must walk alone to find your soul.

Bryant McGill - Voice of Reason

Reach deep within, and reconnect with the essence of your being.

Evy Michaels -

Who are you?How can one person be gregarious and a recluseOpen and closed at the same timeInvincibly vulnerableEmotionally indifferent to what's going on around youWhat happened to you?That the same walls you built are now crushing youYou call them friends albeit they really don't know youYou are but a gypsy in their livesA nomad just passing throughWhy are you staring back at me?Answer me!Mirror mirror, LET ME IN!

Mimi Novic -

Sometimes all we need to soothe our soul and ease our burdens is the loving hand of a friend gently touching our heart and lifting us towards love

Debbie A. Anderson -

Clarity within your vibrational energy embraces the journey of your soul giving you clear direction.

Jennifer Mattern -

it’s a lifetime process to figure out how to fill your soul.

Raneem Kayyali -

I spend my days trying to remember what only my soul knows but my mind can't comprehend.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Let me be in your inspiration.

Ahdaf Soueif -

Even God would say"Finish the task you have undertaken". He would never recommend breaking her mother's heart, damaging her parents' lives. "Your mother and then your mother and then your mother," the Prophet had said, "and then your father." But what about her own life? What is to become of that?

Tyler J. Hebert -

The sun rises each morning to shed light on the things we may have overlooked the day before.

A.J. Darkholme - Rise of the Morningstar

In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished.

Jury Nel -

Being able to feel love, loyalty, gratitude and happiness means you have a soul? Then all my pets are bound for heaven.

Ndiritu Wahome - The Sad Artist and Other Fairytales

The best writing is when one writes from the soul

Molly Friedenfeld -

Life is about enjoying the journey, not the end destination.

Kij Johnson - The Man Who Bridged the Mist

The soul often hangs in a balance of some sort. Tonight do I lie down in the high fields with Dirk Tanner or not? At the fair, do I buy ribbons or wine? For the new ferry’s headboard, do I use camphor or pearwood? Small things. A kiss, a ribbon, a grain that coaxes the knife this way or that. They are not, Kit Meinem of Atyar. Our souls wait for our answer because any answer changes us. This is why I wait to decide what I feel about your bridge. I’m waiting until I know how I will be changed.” “

Kendal Rob -

Nobel intentions have no real meaning to them if you don't do it solely for you. Do it to satisfy your soul, not theirs. Don't do it in hope that it earns you a reward at the end, instead let the reward be the beauty created as a result of your actions.

Lisa Fantino - lost & found in the south of Italy

When you smile from within good things come to you from without. Just breathe, your music will come.

Rossana Condoleo -

When we are happy, we forget to eat. Then happiness is a primary need, even more important for life than nourishing the body.

Aspen Matis - Girl in the Woods: A Memoir

I'd have to be impolite, an inconvenience, and sometimes awkward. But if I could commit, all that discomfort would add up to zap predatory threads like a Taser gun. I'd stun them. They'd bow to me. I'd let my no echo against the mountains.And better to feel bad for a moment saying no—and stop it—than to get harmed.I would take better care.That small word, no. I'd see its deity.

Alexandra Ripley - Scarlett

How could a man know the truth of his own soul?

Nataša Nuit Pantović - Tree of Life

VISION OF A WISARDHow many of you wish to be Wizards when you grow old?How many of you want to fly?I wished to become a dragon – he saidAnd he looked at us with eyes filled with fireThe Wizard of Earth’s SeaDescended to tell us a secret ofABRACADABRAGet to know – he said - God’s true nameThe word will initiate PowerGate keepers of Ancient KnowledgeWill open their doors Mythological Archetypes will start their danceLeading you to your tribal cloutSkeletons scattered over the burial groundsAncesto

Raouf Ayoub -

You tend to write because your heart holds million unspoken words, writing is your only way to heal your own soul!

A.J. Darkholme - Rise of the Morningstar

We’re all blurry-eyed wanderers of time, and the unfortunance of it all is that we’d probably all go on to do great things if only we searched for what corrected and focused our vision instead of relying on our past – life’s grand kaleidoscope – to help us find our way forward.

Morris R. Gates -

I have spent so many nights out under the starsEuphoria running through my veins and alcohol coursing through my bloodMy mind would race along with my heartMy vision drawn to the stars and all the possibilities of what is out thereSuddenly the world and all its problems seems so infinitesimal My mind leaves this plane And a smile is drawn across my faceI know this isn’t reality, but I absorb it with all my beingI find it better to be lost out here then found in my real lifeAmongst the stars now

Mimi Novic -

It is not possible for others to keep us prisoners if we want to be free

Maureen Brady - Daybreak: Meditations For Women Survivors Of Sexual Abuse

I value and honor the way that my suffering brings me to further search and surrender.

Nataša Nuit Pantović - A-Ma Alchemy of Love

Within the earth’s womb each metal grows slowly developing and transforming into its perfection, its highest manifestation – gold. Nature and God are striving towards perfection, everything moves towards One. Just as human strive to become fully conscious, so all the metals strive to reach their purest state – gold.

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Listen to 'The Voice', not the choice

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

All souls have a body.

AnkitMishra -

There is one truth that we all are born with, The Death. In between the birth and the death, we are given an opportunity to seek the source of the ultimate truth. But the distractions and our ego often limits our existence to our shape and intellect, which grows with time but just like desires to live more.

Tamara Stamenkovic -

Do you think your soul is more beautiful than your body?

Stefan Emunds - The Second Coming of Jesus Christ - A Short Story

You’re an immortal, divine being. A little god, and yet, you toil like a slave. Isn’t that hilarious?

Clarissa Pinkola Estés - Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

The word pneuma (breath) shares its origins with the word psyche; they are both considered words for soul. So when there is song in a tale or mythos, we know that the gods are being called upon to breathe their wisdom and power into the matter at hand. We know then that the forces are at work in the spirit world, busy crafting soul.

Maureen Brady - Daybreak: Meditations For Women Survivors Of Sexual Abuse

I am filled with truth at my center where I once held shame.

Seth Adam Smith - Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

Where does your soul walk?

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

We must look deep into our soul daily.

Emma Mildon - The Soul Searcher's Handbook: A Modern Girl's Guide to the New Age World

Being human means that you’ll slip from your spiritual path sometimes. But being a Soul Searcher means that you are also aware when you snap or get moody, angry, or resentful (basically, when you act like you’re the lead baton twirler of the dick parade), but you have the tools and knowledge to work through and release your negative energy and move back to a place of oneness and positivity.

Ta-Nehisi Coates - Between the World and Me

The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible-that is precisely why they are so precious.

Stefan Emunds -

Souls spread over the planet and leave no mountain unclimbed, no valley undiscovered, no sea unsailed, ventured even into outer space.Souls mingle and leave no relationship unattempted, no emotion unfelt, no pleasure and pain unexplored.Souls plunge into their minds and leave no tale untold, no image unpainted, no melody unheard.Souls transcend their fantasies and leave no idea unthought, no natural law undescribed, no wisdom undefined. Souls even pass over the thinkeable and witness ineffable r

Teresa R. Funke - Bursts of Brilliance for a Creative Life blog

If your art is calling to you, its doing so for a reason. You are feeling a pull toward something for which your soul is yearning.

Maria Elena -

I wish to offer the world more than just beauty and plastic moments. I wish to offer the world depth, conversation, poetry and wisdom. I hope you do not deny me when I open these doors.

Maria Elena - Eternal Youth

We were not meant to read stories anymore. We were too busy writing our own.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Set your soul in search of th he truth.

Bhoopal M -

If you feel alone take topic make conversation with your soul. it gives more positive attention to know who you are.

Robert Sarah - The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise

For someone who is far from God, silence is a difficult confrontation with his own self and with the rather dismal realities that are at the bottom of our soul. Hence, man enters a mentality that resembles a denial of reality. He gets drunk on all sorts of noises so as to forget who he is. Postmodern man seeks to anesthetize his own atheism.

A.J. Darkholme - Rise of the Morningstar

The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you're out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form.

Kendal Rob -

I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines of my own mind, more so than I do in the reality that surrounds me.

Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

Molly Friedenfeld -

Find the gifts of goodness or service you have agreed to bring forth to the world and then start sharing those gifts as quickly as possible with as many souls as possible.

Morris R. Gates -

We should not look for more in others,Rather find more within ourselves.

Unarine Ramaru -

Cheating on self, is a paralysis of being.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

As I explored my soul, now I know I have survived schizophrenia; hearing voices, reduced social engagement, emotional expression and lack of motivation.

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

The soul is a cloister, its parameters frame both realized and failed dreams.

Kamal Ravikant - Live Your Truth

The things I carry are my thoughts. That's it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.

Seth Adam Smith - Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

Where does your soul walk? Does it walk in the sunlit woods or hide in the shadowy forest?

Sunday Adelaja -

We were built differently, locate you own calling and explore it

Stefan Emunds -

Enlightenment arrives like a thief in the middle of the dark night of the soul.

Stefan Emunds - The Priest Whisperer

I seem to know a lot about myself, but can’t tell who I am.

Stefan Emunds - The Second Coming of Jesus Christ - A Short Story

The soul is imbued with a yearning that is carried, like a torch, from incarnation to incarnation. It burns with a curiosity about life and it’s true identity. Souls live, strive, and evolve, driven to seeking the truth about the world and themselves.

Adrianna Stepiano -

Into the wind we vary,Our hearts free of youth,Mold me into envy,If I can’t have your muse;Under toe,Walk to the throne,After centuries of life.

Avery Sawyer - Notes to Self

I don't believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It's like I don't want to admit that maybe everything really is totally random...that people are just molecules in the air, bumping into each other and floating away again."-p150, NOTES TO SELF

Erik Pevernagie -

The dialectic case of the 'things we do', the 'things we have done' and the 'things we are going to do' has been haunting present and earlier generations. For ages people have been confronted with the soul-searching question how should I interpret the past and how do I move forward. Linguistic sayings, which were inherited from century to century, gave us a good deal of remarkable advice and moral guidance in this field : " Do what is right and let come what come may ", " Do well and fear not ",

Eric Onyango Otieno - Touring My Mind

Seek self before you venture to conquer the world. Most of what you are looking for is rooted inside you.

Nikki Rowe -

We can try and push eachother away, we can try and deny what we feel but when two hearts have connected and two souls have been reminded of love there is simply no way fate can keep us apart.

S. Usher Evans -

I have found the more fantastic the setting, the more truthful the confessions.

Michael J. Cooper -

Vigilance enables wisdom and is the key to freewill

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Is there anything that satisfy the soul like the Truth?