My Soul Quotes

Social issues is something I’ve been a part of changing and pushing for. It’s embedded and ingrained in my soul. It’s not something that personally I try to plan. It just comes in the heat of the moment.

I was rejected for couple of adverts for sounding too sad. One was for Diet Coke, but it’s a good thing it didn’t happen because it probably would have been a big blight on my soul. It also happened with a fabric softener called Downy, and I guess the way I sang ‘Only Downy’ made people weep.

I don’t want to sell my soul or anything, but to go on a huge tour would be next level.

If I didn’t write my soul would dry up and die.

My soul lives in Montana. It’s where I fly-fish for trout.

Peforming as James Brown, I didn’t really have to go deep in my soul the way I do as Charles Bradley.

I am not someone who will bare my soul on Twitter. If I am angry with somebody, I will abuse them there, if I am happy, I will express it there.

Whenever I visit Lucknow my soul gets refreshed.

I don’t deal well with being told what to wear and sit on a mark. It just feels like my soul is being ripped out.

I remember specifically a couple of performances that I saw when I was young – River Phoenix in ‘Stand by Me’ and also Michael Jackson, in particular his ability to command such power and love while maintaining such deep vulnerability. It really moved my soul from a very young age.

My blood, my roots, my soul is in the state of Montana.

My wife is my soul mate. I can’t imagine being without her.

Qawaali is the art, that’s in my soul. It’s the ground. Everything else is a passing season – wind, rain, sunshine.

Music is such a part of my soul.

I’m so proud of ‘As She Pleases.’ It’s a really personal record, and I put so much of myself into it that; it feels like I am sharing part of my soul with the world by releasing it.

I’m not a fighter, but in my mind I’m fighting every day. ‘What’s new? What am I doing?’ I’m fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren’t samurai, but my soul is.

I had an Oscar, an Emmy, and yet I had this big hole in my soul.

When I sing, I go somewhere else. Every time after I sing, I’ll ask, ‘Did I do OK?’ Because I feel like it’s like my soul squeezing out of my vocal chords. I don’t sit there and think about ‘I’m gonna do this next…’ I just sing. I sing from my heart, and my heart’s got a little lonesome in it.

I wasn’t present for my own life for a long time. I wasn’t there; I wasn’t in my relationships; I wasn’t in my band; I wasn’t in my soul – I was disconnected from all of it. I would let myself live in a miserable situation forever, mostly of my own making. I made my own misery and made the people around me miserable.

Stardom is no longer the fuel of my soul. It is the deeper aspects of life that nurture me. And I realise I am very blessed.

Your face makes my soul want to eat chocolate pudding!

See, I don’t watch reality television anymore. I watched a little bit of it for awhile, but I found it turned my soul into a black sludge, and I just did not find it healthy or good for me at all, because I would watch it and be disgusted, disgusted.

Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.

I want everybody to know my name because I feel like I give so much of my heart and my soul in my music.

In ‘Straight Talking,’ I had bared my soul, and the press attention had been overwhelming. There were times when I felt scared and vulnerable, regretting the articles I had written to publicize the book, regretting I had opened my life up for all to see.

I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.

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.

All human beings are the same. In the United States, people come from all over the world, all races, all backgrounds. And they’re all doing what they want, many scoring huge successes. When I saw that, I became more open. It freed my soul.

As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I’ve had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.

Rock’n’roll saved my soul.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

‘Twas but my tongue, ’twas not my soul that swore.

She’s a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.

People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts – protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics, if not in my soul. The true me, my spiritual core, slipped further and further from reach.

I was very insecure growing up, and even though I’m not that girl anymore, I think that the passion, that not feeling pretty and being insecure, is where my soul came from. And from early childhood, I let it free onstage.

Bottom line, I have to follow what my soul says, or my spirit. And my spirit said that poetry and the arts should be without borders, should be without political borders.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.

I am profoundly grateful that all of my life I have had a simple faith that Jesus is the Christ. That witness has been confirmed to me hundreds of times. It is the crowning knowledge of my soul. It is the spiritual light of my being. It is the cornerstone of my life.

I’m extremely ambitious. I don’t know why people are afraid to say that. I won’t sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don’t think that’s bad.

I never compromised my integrity by playing a character. I didn’t tweet anybody something crazy. I was just myself, kept winning and stayed ready. I didn’t sell my soul.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Somewhere in the depths of my soul is the connection my father had with his cattle, the hills of Khalavha, and his people.

I think there’s an aspect of my soul, of my personality, that’s very suited to directing. I like being in the room with actors; I love creating a safe space and a chaotic space for the discovery to take place. I love creating a sense of community.

I have met so many of my idols – like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer – all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, ‘Hey man, I’m busy,’ it would have crushed my soul.

The Lord saved my soul.

Football ignites my soul.

Damnation seize my soul if I give your quarters, or take any from you.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

My DVR, like, sees inside my soul, and inside my soul is a 65-year-old retired woman. So there’s Food Network, HGTV and ‘Golden Girls’ reruns. And ‘Roseanne.’

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong – to belong to my mother. And in return – I wanted my mother to belong to me.

There will always be times where you think, ‘What went wrong? Why wasn’t that one more popular?’ You can’t always figure that out, especially if you think you’ve done the best job you can do and was interesting to you. I mean, ‘My Soul to Take,’ I thought should have done much better, and I still like that film a lot.

New York is in my soul.

I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop – all these genres that get slapped under the ‘soul’ genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn’t fit comfortably in either world.

I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my soul is still this idea of being unemployed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at some point and have money.

For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don’t know my neighbors, where people don’t necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I’m missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people.

My soul is not for sale.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

As a young man, I craved fame. I was trying to fix holes in my soul that were there from childhood.

When you do a film like ‘My Soul to Take,’ and people think it sucks, that hurts. We put a lot of work into it, and it’s a good film, but you go on.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

I believe very deeply in my soul that God paired me and my father purposely and that he knew that my father would give me the strength to be a person with disability that was proud, always held her head high, and was never, ever bitter.

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it’s my body, it’s my soul, it’s my feelings. That’s the only way I know how to work. I couldn’t pretend.

My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It’s about an immortal. We’re shooting for this Fall and that’s been a six year development right there.

My soul is in good shape.

When I have been exposed to so many films that are so bad, my soul gets crushed. I just feel intoxicated.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

‘Nation’ was one that I’d have killed myself if I hadn’t written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience’ sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.

It’s usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It’s such a cliche to say that artists write when they’re down, but it’s true for me. It’s a relief to get out what’s eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.

I can’t tell a joke to save my soul. It’s just not my thing, though I love to listen to jokes.

My husband’s my soul mate. At the same time, RuPaul’s my soul mate.

I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.

I could go on Twitter, Instagram, and literally, my soul will be lifted by things that I see. It just makes me really happy.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Getting dressed, for me, is like a window to my soul.

The Lord receive my soul, and have mercy on me, and bless this kingdom with peace and charity, that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them.

For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul.

I’m a student of cinema in general, not just of one particular genre. So it was very important to me and to my soul to go out and do something different.

I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street.

I made an album of healing music called ‘Grace and Gratitude’ that came from my soul.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

Above all else, deep in my soul, I’m a tough Irishwoman.

Fortunately, I’ve never been very conscious and inhibited of what I have to do. The camera’s my soul mate.

Alternative R&B is in my soul. It’s not going anywhere.

My music is my soul speaking, literally. It’s spiritual. It has a lot of feelings, a lot of pain.

Shooting movies has changed, and me too – I have changed. And then, every film I do, something in my mind, my soul, changes. My natural change, I change at the same time as the films, I think.

It’s not like if I play in big places I won’t be happy. But I don’t want to start adapting to what’s in style to make my music. I want to stay true to my roots, to keep making the music I love, that comes from my soul. And if there are people who want to listen to it, I’m happy.

‘Blanche’ opened a new door for me without really making me more famous. ‘Blanche’ was a risk, but that is the only thing that excites me in this profession. The knowledge that I am an actress who takes risks lifts my soul.

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

I tend to be one who just speaks from my soul, and so what comes out sometimes is rather harsh. In that sense, I’m very much a part of the tradition of a Frederick Douglass or a Malcolm X who used hyperbolic language at times to bring attention to the state of emergency.

Sports are in my soul. That’s what drives me.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.

I love music with my soul, but I’m also a student of it, so it’s very important to me to earn the respect of my peers, my fellow musicians and producers.

I’d given my life and my soul to Kajagoogoo and then after a cheap phone call, it was all over. I did cry and I’m not ashamed to admit it. Anybody is entitled to break down under those circumstances.

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

Everything in life requires a bit of faith, but for me it is knowing what is going on inside my head, inside my soul, and in both our personal lives and professional lives, we need to know how we are, to be able to have a good life.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier’s occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

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.

I really like worship music. It settles my soul. Gets me back on track. The lyrics are almost like a prayer, so it’s my go-to.

Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music; it makes me feel closer to home.

I love creating things that come from my gut and my soul.

My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.

I was learning ‘Changes’ at the time that my mom was sick and she was leaving me. And those last verses in that song, they really struck my soul, totally.

Singing makes me so happy and feeds my soul so much that I almost wouldn’t want it to get tainted and become this work thing.

Every day of my life, I wish I was on Broadway. It’s my favorite place. It’s my heart; it’s my soul.

When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here… in the Southwest… I still live in New Mexico.

I’ve worked hard and tried to approach my career with as much honesty and integrity as possible. I’ve also had many blessings along the way and feel very fortunate to have a career that speaks so much to my soul.

I want to put my soul into the music and still be who I am when it comes to an actual conversation.

Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.

I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it’s sushi.

I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be – a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

‘You’ll Accomp’ny Me’ is a song I’ve always really cherished. The guy in that song is just so courageous. He’s saying this to the girl, ‘I know you’ve got to go do your thing, but eventually, we’ll be together. I feel that strong, and I know it in my soul.’ And there’s something really cool about that.

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.

My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren’t fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren’t enough to fill my soul.

I need to hold onto my soul and my integrity, and I can’t compromise that.

I knew I heard the doctor correctly. I didn’t think he said something else, I didn’t think for a second, ‘Well maybe he didn’t say it.’ No, I knew I heard him! But I still couldn’t comprehend… in my mind… in my soul… he just said, ‘cancer.’

I’m always a big fan of a big pot of chicken soup. I like to make a big pot of that, and I keep it in my freezer so when I come off the road and I just want to sit in my pajamas on my couch and catch up on the DVR and dig into a nice big bowl of chicken soup. It feeds my soul.

I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that.

You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me – out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.

Music is the embodiment of my soul. When I play, I’m not performing a song: I’m becoming it.

I will give my soul every game.

I think there are three kinds of songs; it’s only my theory: psychological, emotional, and spiritual. When you write psychologically or intellectually, you have a tune in your mind, and you re-write it. It’s an intellectual approach. The emotional is my favorite because it comes from my kishkas; it comes from my soul.

Music is my soul, and I love singing and dancing, but being on the road is not a real way of life for me anymore.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Throughout my career, I have been confronted with people who have doubted my ability to achieve the dreams and ambitions distilled into my soul by my father.

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

For me, real life is hard work. Making movies is like a vacation for my soul.

When every court was saying ‘no,’ I believe God was still saying yes. I had to somehow find that faith and reach deep down in my soul and believe in the teaching that my mother taught me as a young boy, that God can do everything but fail.

To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.

I think theater probably remains my favorite, sort of where my soul lives. It takes a lot of discipline, and you have to show up eight shows a week, no matter how you feel physically, mentally, emotionally – there’s nobody to cut around that: you’ve got to tell the story yourself for two hours.

I believe my soul isn’t entirely German because my home is so disorderly.

Makeup and beauty is essentially art so I really can’t say that I dislike any trend. I love seeing innovation and creativity. It feeds my soul!

I don’t play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

I really believe deep in my soul that we’re going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.

I wear clothes reflecting the color of my soul!

My soul is still Irish.

My only goal is to be the best actress I can be. You have to give it everything. All I have as an actress is the revelation of my soul.

I knew in my soul that girls like me needed to be represented.

It’s raining my soul, it’s raining, but it’s raining dead eyes.

There has been a great laziness in my soul. Lots of days I could write songs, but I could also take my $400 and play the slot machines at the riverfront casino.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

I am very thankful and blessed that I haven’t had to sell my soul and be anything that I’m not.

There’s a lot around us that we can’t control, but my body, my mind, and my soul are pretty much the only things that I can.

I don’t like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it’s good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it’s all about what fuels my soul and if I’m passionate about a screenplay then that’s what I’ll do next.

I get satisfaction out of making a meal for people that I love and having them enjoy it. But there’s not really anything in my life that I do that’s just for me that feeds my soul like music does.

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That’s because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

I’m going to do what feeds my soul.

I put my soul into every book I write.

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

My soul is fine, thanks.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

As the hart desires the spring of living water, so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body and see You in truth.

Nature. That’s the one thing that tips the balance in terms of living here in California. Within minutes, I can be in a desert, at the ocean, in a park, and that’s the most nourishing food for my soul.

Once I got done with my career, I knew in my soul that I don’t have any negative thoughts about myself.

The difference between the headphones and making music, it’s like, okay, I have a new business here that I’m proud of, but my soul still remains in the music-making process.

Not only am I literally and figuratively the dark horse, I’m actually the poor horse. The only thing that I have going for me is my soul and my commitment to the American people.

The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German – German in my soul.

I am most proud that I stayed true to the music of my soul.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

My heart gets tight and it’s almost like my soul gets congested if I’m not making music.

If I fought like I was looking for a place in history, it would ruin me as a person. I don’t think history is worth selling my soul.

I chose to be part of ‘Kaafir’ because the story called out to my soul, I need to connect with it.

I really want to be associated with great projects and character driven projects and films. I have to feed my soul, and keep feeling like an artist and keep being challenged.

I go through every single emotion. My artistic life will likely be shorter than it could be because everything is for real for me. This is my life and my soul.

My soul is happy wherever my body takes me, but when it takes me to Indy, I’m really happy. These are signature years out of my life, some of the best years of my memory.

I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That’s how powerful music can be.

For a long time, I was shy about recording gospel music, because I didn’t necessarily want to show the inside of my soul, Milsap revealed. But now, the spiritual side of me is really shining through.

Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft – not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

Love-making is so personal to me that if I do it on screen, it is like I am leaving a part of my soul. I cannot do that.

I understand now that my soul is my power, not perfection or my ego. I continue to teach this to my children, despite their glamorous careers. If we can maintain our core values, the exteriors take second place and become a gift, a source of gratitude.

Those 18 months in solitary confinement… bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out.

Where I go, where He takes me, that’s where I need to spread the love of God. Because people’s souls are dying. My soul was dying. And He saved me.

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, – Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.

I’ve sold my soul for freedom. It’s lonely but it’s sweet.

I’ve worked with some people and they turn, they become that image on TV and they’re lost in it, lost in who they are. It scares me. I want to stay me, preserve my soul.

I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.

High maintenance means a lot of care. My relationships are high maintenance, my body is high maintenance, and my soul is high maintenance. I really care about my friends and my family; I eat good; I pray a lot. So it’s like, I really care about my relationships with my family, my friends, my body and my soul.

I’d much rather face the voters defending what’s right and true than to have to explain selling my country and my soul to Donald Trump.

Every time I’d do a play, my grades would get better because I was doing something that fed my soul. It took me a couple of years to recognize that the hobby was actually the calling.

It’s really important for me that the people who listen to my music get something that can hopefully help them get through whatever they’re going through. Music is the only thing that’s able to help sooth my soul in that way, and my goal is to always put things out there that that do the same thing for other people.

I work out and go to the gym, but I still enjoy my soul food and snacks. But I’m a pretty petite young woman, and I just do everything in moderation and make sure that I just keep everything together.

Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.

Dancing’s part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.

I’m never gonna sell my soul or violate myself for no amount of dollars or fame.

Art has been good for my soul. And it’s been good for my brain. I think I’m a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.

I truly love everything about India. I love the fact I can uplift my soul, energy to higher heights.

I change my phone number, and with my soul shrunken by terror, I make the decision never to see Pablo Escobar again in my life. Overnight, I have stopped loving him.