- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soul Quotes
Some lines just reach further than others.
Several of these treat hardship as necessary soul growth rather than something to avoid entirely. For related reflection on the heart's role, see our Heart quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Singer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to be a soul singer.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not in this to make money. I would not have sold my soul to be on 'American Idol.'
- My Soul
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, you feel like you've sold your soul. But if I win the lottery, I'm going to buy it back.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.
- Nov 07, 2020
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel more and more, every day of my life, how much my dear mamma has done for my establishment. I was the youngest of all her daughters, and she has treated me as if I were the eldest, so that my whole soul is filled with the most tender gratitude.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers it's coming from their soul and their core. But with me it does come from my soul and my core, and my soul and my core often go AWOL, and then I've nothing to write.
- Nov 07, 2020
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black. I don't want them to see that my face is white. I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
- Dignity
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- Nov 07, 2020