45 Inspiring Soulful Quotes

In a world that often feels overwhelming and fast-paced, taking a moment to be inspired can reinvigorate the soul and refocus our energy. Words have the power to uplift, transform, and remind us of our intrinsic strength and potential. Whether you're seeking solace during challenging times or simply looking to infuse your day with positivity, this curated collection of the top 45 inspiring soulful quotes offers a wellspring of wisdom and encouragement. Let these words serve as gentle reminders of hope, resilience, and the beauty of the human spirit, guiding you on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment.

1. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.” - Rumi

2. “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

3. “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

4. “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.” - Sir Thomas More

5. “If someone loves you, they should not be envious of you pouring your heart and soul and time and energy into the things that you are passionate about, but instead....they should love you MORE because you are so involved in those things.” - Sharon Swan

6. “If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.” - Sri Chinmoy

7. “A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul” - Karl Lagerfeld

8. “Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.” - Richard Flanagan

9. “There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls have touched. Our minds touched. Our hearts touched. Our souls touched.We separate.” - james frey

10. “Crows don’t take from you,” Dean said. “They give your soul wings.” - Caitlin Kittredge

11. “What do you want?""Just coffee. Black - like my soul.” - Cassandra Clare

12. “God steals my soul.” - Harley King

13. “On this material plane, each living being is like a street lantern lamp with a dirty lampshade.The inside flame burns evenly and is of the same quality as all the rest—hence all of us are equal in the absolute sense, the essence, in the quality of our energy.However, some of the lamps are “turned down” and having less light in them, burn fainter, (the beings have a less defined individuality, are less in tune with the universal All which is the same as the Will)—hence all of us are unequal in a relative sense, some of us being more aware (human beings), and others being less aware (animal beings), with small wills and small flames.The lampshades of all are stained with the clutter of the material reality or the physical world.As a result, it is difficult for the light of each lamp to shine through to the outside and it is also difficult to see what is on the other side of the lampshade that represents the external world (a great thick muddy ocean of fog), and hence to “feel” a connection with the other lantern lamps (other beings).The lampshade is the physical body immersed in the ocean of the material world, and the limiting host of senses that it comes with.The dirt of the lampshade results from the cluttering bulk of life experience accumulated without a specific goal or purpose.The dirtier the lampshade, the less connection each soul has to the rest of the universe—and this includes its sense of connection to other beings, its sense of dual presence in the material world and the metaphysical world, and the thin connection line to the wick of fuel or the flow of electricity that resides beyond the material plane and is the universal energy.To remain “lit” each lantern lamp must tap into the universal Source of energy.If the link is weak, depression and-or illness sets in.If the link is strong, life persists.This metaphor to me best illustrates the universe.” - Vera Nazarian

14. “In-existence, the soul’s greatest imposition is its perfection. It is projected as a perfected form of the physical embodiment, an emblem of things, perhaps hyperreal and untouchably perfect as existence. It can not be! The soul in-existence is nothing of perfection. It is raw potential. The soul is nothing but potential. To be specific, the soul is unordered potential!” - Dew Platt

15. “And at that moment, Thibaut knew he was a murderer. He had murdered his brother that night; he had taken away his brother's soul.” - C. JoyBell C.

16. “This path was not that of my conscious choosing. But after persistent subconscious confrontation, I have finally embraced what is, 'souly' for me...and I am thankful, when called upon, to be able to share and give to those who seek their own way of the path.” - T.F. Hodge

17. “My parents had torn through my innocence and left me with a tar-like substance that was corrupting what was left of me. I could feel it at night; slithering and curling around my soul as it slowly devoured me. It was draining my energy and replacing it with an evil I was afraid to confront.” - J.D. Stroube

18. “She discovered that underneath the aspect of the Rumpled Porcupine, a tortured Marxist was at war with an impossible, incurable Romantic - who forgot the candles, who broke the wine glasses, who forgot the ring. Who made love to her with a passion that took her breath away. She had always thought of herself as a somewhat uninteresting, thick-waisted, thick ankled girl. Not bad-looking. Not special. But when she was with Chacko, old limits were pushed back. Horizons expanded.She had never before met a man who spoke of the workd - of what it was, and how it came to be, or what he thought would become of it - in the way in which other men she knew discussed their jobs, their friends or their weekends at the beach.Being with Chacko made Margaret Kochamma feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country, into the vast extravagant spaces of his. He made her feel as though the world belonged to them - as though it lay before thm like an opened frog on a dissecting table, begging to be examined.” - Arundhati Roy

19. “Prepare to evacuate soul in five, in four, three, two, one.” - Chuck Palahniuk

20. “Breathe next to me. And I will capture a piece of your soul along with mine.” - Marikit dR. Camba

21. “Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.” - W. Somerset Maugham

22. “If I were a carpenter, I would build you a window to my soul. But I would leave that window shut and locked, so that every time you tried to look through it all you would see is your own reflection. You would see that my soul is a reflection of you.” - Colleen Hoover

23. “A broken soul is not the absence of beauty, but a cracked and torn soul reeks of the sweet incense it contains.” - C. JoyBell C.

24. “When you are soul-centered, you can focus your attention where and when you want to, easily, without distraction. You know to look for what you want to see and experience. You know that what you seek you shall find, and what you focus on in life will be more prominent in your awareness. You know your awareness is powerful and creative." ~ Sarah McLean” - Sarah McLean

25. “And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? --- that opened upon a careful observer, now and then, in his eye, and closed again before one could fathom the strange depth partially disclosed; that something which used to make me fear and shrink, as if I had been wandering amongst volcanic-looking hills, and had suddenly felt the ground quiver, and seen it gape: that something, I, at intervals, beheld still; and with throbbing heart, but not with palsied nerves. Instead of wishing to shun, I longed only to dare --- to divine it; and I thought Miss Ingram happy, because one day she might look into the abyss at her leisure, explore its secrets and analyse their nature.” - Charlotte Brontë

26. “Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

27. “I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not.” - Richelle Mead

28. “...I'm innocent still -inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken- and when I see your light it stains my soul with color ...” - John Geddes

29. “People usually seek to join a religious system in order to gain the eternal bliss and freedom of the soul. But belonging somewhere; anywhere is not freedom. Free is the wind. You need to become the wind, not wanting to know how and why, but only to experience this quality of freedom that leads to the original “religion”. There the soul is finally ONE and aligned with anything.” - Grigoris Deoudis

30. “Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.” - E.H. Chapin

31. “Ann prayed because of a gut-wrenching, throbbing pain in her soul. She urgently begged the Lord for her life.” - K. Howard Joslin

32. “An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas do not kill people; they ruin them. People kill people.” - Ingrid

33. “Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.” - Paul Hoffman

34. “...so now you know my eyes are green - because of my shirt? You never looked into my soul to know how much in me is green...” - John Geddes

35. “فالنفس المختلة، تثير الفوضى في أحكم النظُم، وتستطيع النفاذ منه إلى أغراضها الدنيئة، والنفس الكريمة ترقع الفتوق في الأحوال المختَلّة ويشرق نُبْلها من داخلها، فتحسن التصرف والمسير، وسط الأنواء والأعاصير” - محمد الغزالي

36. “You’re my favorite subject, Love. I’ll start with your eyes. I fell in love with those first. One look was like a punch to the guy. You have these ageless eyes on such a young face. I just knew that you had seen bad things, and from the start, I knew that you could understand pain. Understand feeling hopeless and helpless and alone. I fell in love with your eyes first because I looked into their depths and saw the other half of my soul.” - R.K. Lilley

37. “Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth.” - Evan D.G. Fraser

38. “The bitter soul is forever tortured by darkness left undone” - Carl Henegan

39. “Humanity cannot lift itself by its own bootstraps; there is no such thing as spontaneous generation; life does not come from crystals; poetry does not come from donkeys; international peace does not come from wars; social justice does not come from selfishness. With all our knowledge of chemistry we cannot make a human life in our laboratories because we lack the unifying, vivifying principal of a soul which comes only from God. Life is not a push from below; it is a gift from above. It is not the result of the necessary ascent of man but the loving descent of God.” - Fulton J. Sheen

40. “...freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night...” - John Geddes

41. “You say great artists sell their souls for their art?""Maybe," she ventured."That's true, I suppose. If you're doing it right, anyway. I've probably sold mine. Jack's certainly sold his. And you, I imagine.""I have not!" she said, anger showing clear in her eyes. "Not literally," he said hastily. "But we give up being a person to be an artist, don't we?” - Sam Starbuck

42. “It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.” - Lawrence Durrell

43. “The men laugh at the witty line, but it is not a belly laugh. Beasley's mouth is in a wide smile, but his eyes do not laugh, for there is little reason for joy. And if eyes are indeed mirrors of the soul, then they reflect an infinite sadness. I look away, afraid of what mine might reflect” - Mumia Abu-Jamal

44. “From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life's problems, life would become stagnant, dull and boring.” - Beth Johnson

45. “I changed because of you. I could feel you, worming your way into my heart and soul, shifting things. You've no idea how aggravating it is to have to adapt to new feelings and thoughts.” - Kiersten White