top of page
Exlpore more Soul quotes

"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."

"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye."

"The most beautiful rainbow is the one inside your soul."

"Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation."

"Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn or move it. The soul alone turns and moves itself, making all externals presented to it cohere with the judgements it thinks worthy of itself."

"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul."
Explore more quotes by Henry Van Dyke

"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life."

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars."

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."

"To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for."

"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

"In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence."

"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever."

"It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with."
bottom of page