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God has the key to open the heart of every soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Love is divinity within us.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Adversity is the test of strength in every soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
God is a spirit. The spirit dwells in a body.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Love of the soul is happiness to the spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I guess he was right; I’m just a scorpion without wings,God created me this way, no wings, just a poisonous sting,The one I loved knew my true natureShe knew I could sting her heart, and poisoned her soul,My lover knew me well, she knew my truth,She could see my poisonous soul, My ego bowed to her beauty, always ready to strike She knew my true nature, she saw the scorpion,She saw the venom in heart, she loved me still,I struck her heart multiple times,I poisoned her soul with my sting,I guess he was right; I’m just a scorpion without wingsShe knew me well; she saw the lethal sting,She saw her wounded heart, she loved me stillShe you loved the scorpion to the end,She fell in love, and now she’s dead,The scorpion cries, in agony, He wishes he wasn’t a venomous beast,The scorpion suffers; he misses his loved one,The one he killed, the one he stung,The one who loved him to the end
— Quetzal
We all wrestle with our innerself. It takes grace to find our soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We cry to awake the spirituality of the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The soul awakens in times obscurity by divine grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Prayer is spirituality of the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
My soul was not meant to be in a cage. Not then, and not now.-Alina Chase
— Megan Miranda, Soulprint
May you know, love, obey and serve the Lord with all your heart, soul and mind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Do not exchange your soul for money.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Dancing every day uplifts the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We dance to rekindle the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
My job was to fight evil, and my soul was my weapon.
— Rebecca Chastain, A Fistful of Fire
What a gentle soul you are?
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Our soul is like a soft and gentle flower, it needs to be nurtured, cared for, tended to, with sufficient sunlight, fresh air and freedom to bloom into its most precious and beautiful form. This, my friend, is self-love.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
WHAT IS TRUTH?Truth is not a thingOr a concept.It is as multidimensionalIn its meaningAs it is in its reflection.It is both invisibleAnd visible.It carries tons of weight,But can be carried.It is understood first through the spiritBefore science,And felt in the heart,Before the mind.Truth is not always heard by reason,Because reason sometimesIgnores Truth.Always listen to your conscience.Your conscience is your heartAnd reason is your mind.Your mind is simply there to reasonWith your heart.But remember,Truth is in your heart,And only through your heartCan you connect to the light of God.He who is not motivated by his heartWill not see Truth,And he who thinks only with his mindWill be blind to Truth.He who does not thinkWith his conscience,Does not stand by God,For the language of lightCan only be decoded by the heart.He who reads and recites words of GodAlso does not stand by God –If he merely understandsWords with his mindBut not his heart.Truth is black and white,And the entire spectrumOf colors in-between.It can have many parts,But has a solid foundation.Truth lacks perfection,For it is the reflection of all,Yet its reflection as a whole,Is more beautifulThan the accumulated flawsOf the small.Truth is the only brandWorth breathingAnd believing.So stand for truthIn everything you do,And only thenDoes your life haveMeaning.Poetry by Suzy Kassem
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
If you're going to have the tortured soul of an artist, then you might as well create some art while you're at it.
— Leila Sales, Tonight the Streets Are Ours
Leaving town I sat next to a senseless and beautiful boywho asked where I live.His unwashed hair or the way his eyes were just eyes…the soul is a tiring thing. You can have it.I don’t know what you mean’s what I told him.It’s more simple than that. I’m just passing through.
— Alex Dimitrov
Love is a chemical reaction, but it cannot be fully understood or defined by science. And though a body cannot exist without a soul, it too cannot be fully understood or defined by science.Love is the most powerful form of energy, but science cannot decipher its elements. Yet the best cure for a sick soul is love, but even the most advanced physician cannot prescribe it as medicine.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Laughter is to the soul what sunshine is to a flower.
— Peggy Toney Horton
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
May the light of your soul extinguish all darkness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body.
— Leo Tolstoy
The human spirit is a magnificent entity. Just when we think we can stand no more, something significant touches our soul... and life goes on.
— Peggy Toney Horton
Meditation is the art of silencing the mind so that you may hear the inklings of the Soul.
— Manprit Kaur
Do not doubt thyself, have faith in thy soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Have you ever noticed that our maximum loss of energy occurs when we try torestrain the flow of whatever that is coming from within?
— Deep Trivedi, The Pulse of Wisdom
The spirit cannot exist in a sealed void. It will eventually devour itself or waste away.
— T.A. Miles, Blood Song
Your mind is the doorkeeper of your soul and heart the king. It's unwise to let the doorkeeper control the king.
— Steven Chopade
Love is the beauty of the being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Talking is the voice of human, singing is the voice of soul.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The human spirit is so utterly one with the body that the term "form" can be used of the body and retain its proper meaning. Conversely, the form of the body is spirit, and this is what makes the human being a person.
— Pope Benedict XVI
It is bodies that make us real. What is a soul without eyes to look through or hands to hold?
— Laini Taylor
Peace is serenity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A calm soul is a heavenly being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Knowledge of thyself is the greatest enlightenment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Too often there is this sinister greed that pulls at my coattails, subtly whispering in the ear of my soul that it is within my rights to tuck away a few dark trinkets to toy with when the tedium of righteous living gets a bit boring. But God would suggest that I empty my pockets.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, A View from the Front Porch: Encounters with Life and Jesus
You have to walk with the Creator to find your soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Do not use either harsh words or negative words. They only bring sadness and weaken the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A gentle soul is spiritual.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Life seeks for willing soul. You can be the one.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Love with your soul. Hear your soul speaking, it will always be your guiding light.
— Nikita Dudani
...concepts have three fundamental properties—contextuality, intentionality, and abstraction—which independent things do not. To produce a mental world from the physical world, the physical world must first explain how contextuality, intentionality, and abstraction can arise.
— Ashish Dalela, Uncommon Wisdom: Fault Lines in the Foundations of Atheism
Ascension is the triumph of mastered emotions; a process of gaining clarity in the darkness of blind spots and struggles, allowing you to perceive with the karmic intelligence of the Soul.
— Ka Chinery
KINGDOM OF THE WOMBFrom her thighs, she gives you lifeAnd how you treat she who gives you lifeShows how much you value the life given to you by the Creator.And from seed to dustThere is ONE soul above all others --That you must always show patience, respect, and trustAnd this woman is your mother.And when your soul departs your bodyAnd your deeds are weighed against the featherThere is only one soul who can save yoursAnd this woman is your mother.And when the heart of the universeAsks her hair and mind,Whether you were gentle and kind to herHer heart will be forced to remain silentAnd her hair will speak freely as a separate entity,Very much like the seaweed in the sea --It will reveal all that it has heard and seen.This woman whose heart has seen yours,First before anybody else in the world,And whose womb had opened the doorFor your eyes to experience light and more --Is your very own MOTHER.So, no matter whether your mother has been cruel,Manipulative, abusive, mentally sick, or simply childishHow you treat her is the ultimate test.If she misguides you, forgive her and show her the right wayWith simple wisdom, gentleness, and kindness.And always remember,That the queen in the Creator's kingdom,Who sits on the throne of all existence,Is exactly the same as in yours.And her name is,THE DIVINE MOTHER.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Like flowers we grow, bloom, and whither - each day and each life. In our next life we'll grow, bloom, and whither even more beautifully. But although we blossom more grandiose in each new life, all our lives are perfect in their own way.
— Stefan Emunds
The black of the ocean waves was the color of the sorrow in my breast, a sorrow that was never far away and always visible.
— Barbara T. Cerny
You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
— Green Day
Passion is a key to unlimited success. Without it, we wither and die. It drives our hearts, our minds and our souls to achieve the best possible results.
— Sameh Elsayed
The silence of the night awakens my soul
— Dorinda Duclos
Deprived is the one who has never witnessed his own desperate need for God. Reliant on his own means, he forgets that the means, his own soul, and everything else in existence are His creation.
— Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
People who know and love the same books you do have the roadmap of your soul. I believe that.
— Cassandra Clare
In a man's letters, you know, madam, his soul lies naked. His letters are only the mirror of his heart. Whatever passes within him is there shown undisguised in its natural progress; nothing is invented, nothing distorted; you see systems in their elements, you discover action in their motives. Samuel Johnson to Mrs. Thrale (1777)
— Michael Kelahan, The World's Greatest Love Letters
God himself had sent me away. I was truly now among the damned.
— Barbara T. Cerny, The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched - Amazon Best Seller!
We can have a friendly and intimate relationship with God.
— Stefan Emunds
Christianity is a way of life - not a dogma!
— Stefan Emunds
Gracious words are refreshing to the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless.
— Barbara T. Cerny, The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched - Amazon Best Seller!
Breathe of life, living soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I did not choose to be a monster—a shell of a man—half-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am.
— Barbara T. Cerny, The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched - Amazon Best Seller!
My body weeps to livewhen you make me believe that someday I will be deadsoul sleepless in graveyard's bed
— Munia Khan
They say the eyes are the apertures to the soul. If that is so, I feared Locusta's soul was far darker than even Nero's.
— Katlyn Charlesworth, While Rome Burned
My life was going exactly where I wanted it to until the Devil showed up.
— Barbara T. Cerny, The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched - Amazon Best Seller!
Iona stared at me for a long time. “You are going to leave me a widow before I have a chance to become a bride.
— Barbara T. Cerny, The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched - Amazon Best Seller!
What selfish soulwould ask anotherto livethis way.
— Claudia Bakker, Dark Woods
Then it kissed me—not as a man would kiss a lover, not with tenderness or even passion. This was a kiss that stole the soul of men. Revulsion at this creature’s kiss was instantly replaced by the warmth stealing through my veins, as if my missing blood were being replenished and contrived to heal me. I craved to keep kissing the beast. My entire being awakened to that kiss feeding me ecstasy, feeding me life.
— Barbara T. Cerny, The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched - Amazon Best Seller!
Have faith, let go, and gravitate towards. 
— Stefan Emunds
Happy mind, happy soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
There is divinity in every soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
It’s only a book until someone loses their soul!
— Delano Johnson, LIVE ETAH: Dream For Now
I have danced too deeply in my shadows, to ever fear the walk of my sunshine.
— Nikki Rowe
Every soul needs a touch of erotic love. A deep, unconditional love is what every heart truly desires. True love is passionately erotic.
— Salil Jha, Naked Soul: The Erotic Love Poems
If you truly love someone, he or she will inevitably love you back. If you find yourself in an emotional one way street, walk away! Trust that it’s not love.
— Stefan Emunds
Jagged needle, wicked liesFrom under the skin, pluck evil eyes.Destiny change from pain and coldNow that you pay in blood and soul.
— Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths
I breathe in... The sights and smells Of this city I’ve come to know... So well I gaze... Across the turquoise ocean Where the waves Liberate my spirit... From its shell I breathe in... The brilliant sky line Where the birds Emerge shyly From the dappled sunshine I breathe in... The gently... Blowing winds That soothe me Like a mother, around her child I breathe in... The sounds of laughter Pure and pretty Like the golden-green butterfly I’m always after I breathe in... The closeness, I have always shared With people, Who almost knew me, Almost cared I breathe in... The comfort Of my home, The safe walls, The scents of childhood On the pillows I breathe in...the silence Of my own heart Aching with tenderness... With memories.. Of home I breathe... in... The fragrance Of love, and moist sand The one... His roses left... On both my hands And I just keep on breathing Every moment As much as I can Preserving it, in my body For the day It can’t So I breathe in.. Once again.. Feeling life's energy Fizzing through my cells Never knowing What awaits me Or what's going to happen to me.. Next I breathe in This moment... Knowing it's either life Or it's death I close my eyes, And breathe in Just believing in myself.
— Sanober  Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest
You don't need an entire garden bed, to notice the beauty of a flower.
— Nikki Rowe
Each flower is a field smile, every man is the soul of the world.
— Corina Abdulahm-Negura
A vibrant body, a radiant mind, a loving heart, and an honorable life.
— Stefan Emunds
She is trying to control me with fear, because she cannot control me any other way.My eyes open wide. They burn as if they are on fire—no, as if they are made of fire. Eyes are the window to the soul.
— Beth Revis, The Body Electric
You're like a gem shining ever brightly in an ever dimming world.
— Zechariah Barrett
Miracles happens everyday. You have to open your heart, mind and soul to see these miraculous encounters.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May my soul radiate light and love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
They say this soul hunting will cost me my sanity,i say i'd go insane if i stop.
— Anjum Choudhary
Sacred signs always come when your soul calls out in pain or joy.
— Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths
The dread had not left my soul.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, Treatises on Friendship and Old Age
The greatest divinities of the soul are life, love and light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I hate what G.P. calls the New People, the new class people with their cars and their money and their tellies and their stupid vulgarities and their stupid crawling imitations of the bourgeoisie.(...)The New People are still the poor people, it is the new form of poverty. The others hadn't any money and these haven't any soul.
— John Fowles
To breathe,to breathe is nothing more than confirmation of the existence of your soulwhether you believe it or not,whether you live or cease to fight
— Alba Avila
Love with all your heart, soul and mind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Humanity is completely consumed with the pleasures of the flesh
—  we have been self-programmed to lose consciousness of the soul.
Love is like sunshine
—  it nourishes our soul to bloom flowers of happiness.
Your soul was bought for a price far greater than the world on the cross
—  everything Satan offers you in exchange for your soul is from the world and absolutely worthless. John 3:16
Life is a song made of the musical rhythm of the body, words of the mind and the melodious silence of the soul.
— Banani Ray, Awakening Inner Guru
Love rekindles the soul of every man.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I am a soul, and I have a body. We don't learn about people by studying their bodies. We learn about people by finding out how they feel, what they think, what they're passionate about, what their worldview is, and so forth....So my conclusion is that there's more to me than my conscious life and my body. In fact, I am a 'self,' or an 'I,' that cannot be seen or touched unless I manifest myself through my behavior or my talk. I have free will because I am a 'self,' or a soul, and I'm not just a brain. ~J.P. Moreland, PHD~
— Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God
Divinities of the soul are life, light and love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
When I connect with the animals around me, I connect with their soul. I believe where there is a soul, there is a journey and a purpose.
— Amy  Miller, Beyond Companionship: Connecting with Kindred Souls of Animal Companions.
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
— Friedrich Schiller
Sometimes the heart speaks, and the brain does not understand the language.
— T.A. Cline, Archomai
If God is really my Father, I have rights, and He has responsibilities. I hereby claim my birthright to be protected, educated, and provided for!
— Stefan Emunds
Negative thought saps a person’s strength.Positive thought is healthy to the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Death has only one hand glove... so it takes away the body, but leaves behind the impacts. Difference makers live twice; in body and in impacts... The former is temporal but the later lasts long!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Beauty of music enlightens the soul and fills it with ecstasy.
— Debasish Mridha
The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance, or frozen in a long night, can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where, and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.
— Winston S. Churchill
My soul is exceedingly joyful.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The deepest-lying and most pervasive part of character is disposition: it accompanies us everywhere, and shows itself in all we do. It is the attitude of the soul toward life, the way in which we accept our situation and our daily experiences. On the inner side it gives color and tone to our own conscious life: on the outer side it pervades and modifies our conduct toward others and our reactions to events. A good disposition is indispensable to good character, though of course not all of character; without it one cannot hope for perfection; even with it one may fail through lack of higher elements. It is a sort of foundation layer.
— Edward O. Sisson
Negative thoughts crashed the spirit, weaken the soul and make the body sick.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Hope is what keeps the soul alive.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Happiness is 'happening' in the good souls, those God loves. That love is mirrored in terms of Happiness.
— Priyavrat Thareja
Awake my great soul.Awake my great spirit.Awake my great strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Reach out to your great spirit and soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Don't come to God because you have a problem
—  come to God because God has a problem with your soul. John3:18
What the fertilizer does to the germinating plant is what happiness does for a depressed soul... What anger does to a person is what an acid does to its container!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Sometimes it is better to say ‘no’ and lose your job than it is to say ‘yes’ and lose your soul.
— Todd Stocker
Mankind's glorious and people's happy ending is inevitable. No one will be left behind.
— Stefan Emunds
Spirituality is conversation with God, everything else is just religious custom.
— Stefan Emunds
Positive thought is healthy to the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Adversity tests what the soul can endure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me. And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot.
— Melville Herman
May the Creator ignite the spark of light within our soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
My real soul...? It’s real only when it’s independent...
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
The spirit awaken, the soul revive.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Music empowers the soul with great strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Awake my great soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
they say every living thing requires proper nutrition to survive, they also say music is food for the soul, if that was true i would hav been long dead, hence proved that the soul which survive on music is not a soul but a desire and desires don't die until killed, we should be concerned about the soul which will be held accountable after our deaths, we should make sure our soul is not on dieting now a days
— Nauman Khan
Mediate on Scriptures. It is refreshing to the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Happiness lies with us only. Desire for experiencing interactive pleasure is because of the association with the ignorance (of the Self). The one who does not have such association, he will ‘realize’ true happiness.
— Dada Bhagwan
Love is the sweetest melody of the soul and anything can be catalyst for that.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
Isn't bravery always sort of beautiful?
— Stephen King, Lisey's Story
Let the gladness of your soul blossom.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
My experience of chaotic lessons has humbled me enough to know, I could have it worse than I do I now and positive enough to know I can be where I want to be, someday.
— Nikki Rowe
My heart will never forget what it’s like to fade in and out of time, to never know if one year or a thousand have passed by, to torture yourself with the idea of your soul trapped behind ice for all eternity.I know what torture there is behind ice.
— Beth Revis
When you live your life seeking the opinion and approval of others, you become a slave in your mind and soul to others. This is the worst form of slavery.
— Bien Sufficient
Adversity quickens the mind, awakens the spirit and strength the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
There is nothing my mind can conceive, my heart can believe, my eyes can see and my soul can visualize that I cannot do. Even if the whole world says I can’t, it’s just a matter of time and I will get it done.
— Bien Sufficient
The boy who refused to lose his soul.
— Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer
The sea may catch fire, the planets may collide in space, the sun may quench off its heat, but what we understand is that our peace is like a river in our souls; it's surface may wave about in turbulence, but it's bottom is cool and gently calm!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
You will find rest on Sabbath day for your soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Emojin stopped, turned, and nailed him with her glare. “Because she’s making this one piece all she’ll ever need to show the world who she is instead of coloring her body with random images and needing thirty expressions to show her soul.
— Kim Harrison, A Perfect Blood
Gratitude is a soul blooming profusely!
— Zavia Hope Thomas
My soul is the gods’; my heart is yours.Leiard smiled—a sly, secretive smile. It was an expression she had never seen him wear before. Was this just her mind embellishing the mood she sensed from him? I’ve always suspected souls were a concept the gods invented to encourage people to serve them. In fact, I once had a conversation with a god in which he admitted that —
— Trudi Canavan
It is not when a man is at the end of his life, but when a man is at the end of his profession, that his soul shows itself.
— Matthew Pearl, The Last Bookaneer
The living WORD, medicine for the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Becoming thoughtless does not mean, non-existence of thought. It simply means reaching out to the absolute state of the consciousness which is free of thinking. All of us need a thought to allow universal consciousness to express itself through finite medium – but in the end – the expression itself is infinite, whether visible or invisible
— Drunken Mystic
A happy healthy soul
—  sacred life.
The spirit of life, the divinity of the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Act on your instinct. It is the spirit of your divinity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
May your spirit be empower divine power.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
For even if we have the sensation of being always surrounded by our own soul, it is not as though by a motionless prison: rather, we are in some sense borne along with it in a perpetual leap to go beyond it.
— Marcel Proust
I became lost in a world darkened beyond any known shade of black, and the only light that I have seen since...is you.
— Tracey-anne McCartney, A Carpet of Purple Flowers
If you want to be successful in any area of life, you have to work on developing your soul.
— Sunday Adelaja
Peace is the nature of the mind. And bliss is the nature of the Soul!
— Dada Bhagwan
Study the nature around you, but also within you.
— Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
May your soul be sparked by the glorious light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
My soul is filled with exceedingly joy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
— William Arthur Ward
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
— Margaret Thatcher
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
— Ronald Reagan
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
— John C. Maxwell
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.
— Steve Jobs
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
— Dolly Parton
Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.
— Tina Fey, Bossypants
Power isn’t control at all — power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
— Beth Revis, Across the Universe
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.
— Groucho Marx
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
— Lao Tzu
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
— George S. Patton Jr.
Management is doing things right
—  leadership is doing the right things.
You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others....
— Gordon B. Hinckley
A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an o
— John F. Kennedy
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
— Aristotle
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each 
— John F. Kennedy
...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.
— George S. Patton Jr., Patton Principles
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
— Albert Schweitzer
The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
— Henry David Thoreau
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
A bit of adviceGiven to a young Native AmericanAt the time of his initiation:As you go the way of life,You will see a great chasm. Jump.It is not as wide as you think.
— Joseph Campbell
If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
— Tom Peters, Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
— Colin Powell
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.
— Kenneth H. Blanchard
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
— Peter F. Drucker
A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.
— Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
— Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
— Harry Truman
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
— Colin Powell, On Leadership
A leader is a dealer in hope.
— Napoléon Bonaparte
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they don't know of what. They are angry, but they don't know at whom. They are rejected and they don't know why. All they want is to be somebody. 
— Thomas S. Monson, Pathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
— Rosalynn Carter
In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are.
— Max DePree, Leadership Is an Art
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
— Rosa Parks
There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience
—  a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.
If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive;and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attachedto you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there.People will follow.
— Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too.
— Elizabeth I
You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.
— Tonya Hurley, Homecoming
And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, 'The sky is blue,' and people indignantly rush up trying to refute him saying, 'No, the sky is light blue,' then, whether they realize it or not, he has become an authority figure even to such adversaries.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.
— Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire
You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
— Colin Powell
There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery vengeance. Kings though...well, who is there to turn upon them? So the chains are made of straw. It is the curse of kings, Helikaon, that they can become monsters. And they invariably do.
— David Gemmell, Shield of Thunder
If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.
— Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.
— Orrin Woodward
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
— Peter F. Drucker
Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
The best form of saying is being
— Ernesto Che Guevara, Passages de la guerre révolutionnaire : le Congo
Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men; the least government is the best government. 
— Ralph Moody
Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.
— John C. Maxwell
He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.
— John C. Maxwell
In a battle between  two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.
— Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
The first key to leadership is self-control.
— Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)
— George W. Bush
Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? Why does needy Africa continue to let its wealth meet the needs of those outside its borders and then follow behind with hands outstretched for a loan of the very wealth it let go? How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the price of a broken tool? Where is the future of Africa?
— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the Crow
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
— Tony Blair
A star wants to see himself rise to the top.A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.
— Simon Sinek
(On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.
— Joyce Meyer
Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower, At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends
Together we are better
— John Paul Warren
Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
— Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Surround yourself with great people
—  delegate authority
The world is full of men who want to be right, when actually the secret of a man's strength and his pathway to true honor is his ability to admit fault when he has failed. God wants to fill the church with men who can say they are wrong when THEY ARE WRONG. A man who is willing to humble himself before God and his family and say:"I was wrong." will find that his family has all the confidence in the world in him and will much more readily follow him. If he stubbornly refuses to repent or admit he was wrong, their confidence in him and in his leadership erodes.
— Jim Anderson, Unmasked: Exposing the Cultural Sexual Assault
True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.
— Sheri Dew, Saying It Like It Is
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. 
— Henry Kissinger
Each day you are leading by example. Whether you realize it or not or whether it's positive or negative, you are influencing those around you.
— Rob Liano
At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him.
— Richard Adams, Watership Down
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
— Benjamin Disraeli
To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.
— Barack Obama
A leader must lead. Where others see obstacles, he must see opportunities. When others see problems, he must see possibilities ... Civilization is not built on a negation but on an affirmation- an affirmation of the bright and promising possibilities that the future holds for those who are enterprising enough to pursue them.
— David J. Vaughan, Give Me Liberty: The Uncompromising Statesmanship of Patrick Henry
Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are.
— Thomas John Carlisle
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.
— Vanna Bonta, Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel
Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Startwith what they know. Build with what they have. But with the bestleaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people willsay 'We have done this ourselves.
— Lao Tzu
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
— Peter F. Drucker
Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.
— Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.
— Alan Sakowitz, Miles Away... Worlds Apart
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
— Peter F. Drucker
Man wants to be the king o’ the rabbits, he best wear a pair o’ floppy ears.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
In the end,” Callum said, his voice soft, gentle, “it all comes back to you. You protect them [your pack], you love them, you live for them, and someday, you die. That’s what it means, Bryn-girl, to be what we are [to be Alpha]. It’s lonely. It’s impossible. It’s all-consuming.” It is what it is.
— Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Trial by Fire
A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.
— Larry Crabb
There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot."Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.""Why can't we all move forward together?""Because you're all different. You're not lemmings. Some must lead, and hope that the rest will follow.""Who leads?""The men who must...driven men, compelled men.""Freak men.""You're all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory.""Thank you very much.""My pleasure, sir.""You've saved the day.""Always a lovely day somewhere, sir," the robot beamed. Then it fizzed, jangled, and collapsed.
— Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?
— John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.
— Tom Rath, Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow: A Landmark Study of Great Leaders, Teams, and the Reasons Why We Follow
Stop counting your "years" and start enjoying your "seasons".
— John Paul Warren
Average leaders raise the bar on themselves
—  good leaders raise the bar for others
It’s not just picking the right friends. It is being the right friend.
— John Paul Warren
Belief has the power to change your inner state and your outer world.
— John Paul Warren
The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.
— Lao Tzu
If you perceive right you receive right. If you perceive wrong you receive wrong.
— John Paul Warren
Although individuals need not be well-rounded, teams should be.
— Tom Rath, Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow: A Landmark Study of Great Leaders, Teams, and the Reasons Why We Follow
The world is full of stupid people. That's why we have rules. But with enough intelligence, a person can be above the rules. She can make rules.
— Daniel Nayeri, Another Faust
Neoteny is more than retaining a youthful appearance, although that is often part of it. Neoteny is the retention of all those wonderful qualities that we associate with youth: curiosity, playfulness, eagerness, fearlessness, warmth, energy. Unlike those defeated by time and age, our geezers have remained much like our geeks – open, willing to take risks, hungry for knowledge and experience, courageous, eager to see what the new day brings. Time and lost steal the zest from the unlucky, and leave them looking longingly at the past. Neoteny is a metaphor for the quality – and the gift – that keeps the fortunate of whatever age focused on all marvelous undiscovered things to come.
— Warren G. Bennis, Geeks and Geezers: How Era, Values and Defining Moments Shape Leaders
To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.
— Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
— Peter F. Drucker
Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).
— Tony Dungy, The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently