A collection of the best soul quotes and quotes about our souls to inspire us to look within.
According to Collins Dictionary, your soul is defined as the part of you that consists of your mind, character, thoughts, and feelings. It’s basically the spiritual part of us that exists completely separate from our bodies.
May these soul quotes below remind you that while it’s important to look after our bodies, it is also equally important to feed our souls, work on our internal beauty and character and find inner peace.
75+ Inspirational Soul Quotes
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
— Daniel Defoe
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
— Walt Whitman
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
— William R. Alger
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
— Ferdinand Foch
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.
— Rumi
What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.
— Ray Charles
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
— Thomas Carlyle
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
— Marcus Aurelius
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
— Marsha Norman
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
— Mahalia Jackson
Don’t Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.
— Bob Marley
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
— Minna Antrim
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
— Emily Dickinson
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
— Gerard De Nerval
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
— Rumi
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
— Moshe Dayan
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
— Swami Sivananda
Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
— Leo Tolstoy
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
— William R. Alger
Beautiful Soul Quotes and Sayings
The soul is the truth of who we are.
— Marianne Williamson
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
— Rebecca West
To care about your outward appearance is important, but what’s more important is to have a beautiful soul.
— Roy T. Bennett
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
— Daniel Defoe
Love is the beauty of the soul.
— Saint Augustine
Sometimes the most evolved souls take the most challenging paths.
— Brian Weiss
Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause know each other right away.
— Rumi
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
— Berthold Auerbach
Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.
— Marian Wright Edelman
The free soul is rare but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good when you are near or with them.
— Charles Bukowski
To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
— Oscar Wilde
Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul. There’s always something beautiful to be experienced wherever you are.
— Wayne Dyer
Your eyes show the strength of your soul.
— Paulo Coelho
The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
— Horace Mann
Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.
— Walt Whitman
So the unwanting soul sees what’s hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.
— Lao Tzu
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There’s nothing wrong with you..not even the darkest corner of that beautiful soul.
— Vicki Pettersson
Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.
— Charles Bukowski
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
— Mahatma Gandhi
When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret.
— Shannon L. Alder
It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.
— Thomas Moore
You will never follow your own inner voice until you clear up the doubts in your mind.
— Roy T. Bennett
The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.
— Prophet Muhammad
The soul never thinks without a picture.
— Aristotle
What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.
— Deepak Chopra
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
— Victor Hugo
The soul is an infinite ocean of just beautiful energy and presence made manifest in human form.
— Panache Desai
Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
— Edward Abbey
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Inspiring Soul Quotes
Your wealth can be stolen, but the precious riches buried deep in your soul cannot.
— Minnie Riperton
The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.
— Caroline Muss
If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul.
— Drew Barrymore
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
— Michel de Montaigne
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
— Marcel Proust
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
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
— Dorothy Day
You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
— C. S. Lewis
My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.
— Fernando Pessoa
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.
— Muriel Spark
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
— Emily Dickinson
Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.
— Paulo Coelho
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
— Swami Vivekananda
It’s worth making time to find the things that really stir your soul. That’s what makes you really feel alive. You have to say ‘no’ to other things you’re used to, and do it with all your heart.
— Roy T. Bennett
Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories.
— Ronald Reagan
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
— Anne Sexton
Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.
— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
— J. G. Holland
If only our eyes saw souls instead of bodies, how different our ideals of beauty would be.
— Unknown
Soul Quotes for Her
I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything.
Maybe we’re from the same star.
— Emery Allen
You are an Universe of Universes and your soul a source of songs.
— Ruben Darío
She’s the kind of queen that knows her crown isn’t on her head but in her soul.
— Adrian Michael
Beauty attracts heart but character attracts soul.
— Sindhu Vishnu
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
— Nicholas Sparks
True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.
— Audrey Hepburn
Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.
— Charlie Chaplin
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.
— Charles Dickens
Soul Quotes for Him
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
— Emily Bronte
A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
— Judy Garland
What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body but is the body of the soul.
— Oscar Wilde
I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything. Maybe we’re from the same star.
— Emery Allen