I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. I really do think that dreaming and fantasies are very important to the human psyche and the soul. That's why I want to act.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
Immortality is the negation of death. We do not usually speak about 'innatality' - about having not yet been born - yet this is something we would have to regard as the other aspect of the human soul. We are just as unborn as we are immortal.
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.
Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
Prayer is a privilege and the soul's sincere desire. We can move beyond routine and 'checklist' prayers and engage in meaningful prayer as we appropriately ask in faith and act, as we patiently persevere through the trial of our faith, and as we humbly acknowledge and accept 'not my will, but Thine, be done.'
Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.
My soul existed in an African vessel hundreds of years ago as the leader of a tribe, and my tribe fought for honor.
My house is a bit like a teenager's bedroom. The kind of pictures you have hanging up on your wall say a lot about you. I've got ones of Evel Knievel, Elvis and Starsky and Hutch, signed by David Soul.
Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
If you love someone truly, just look into her eyes. You will find your soul in her.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
'The Chicken Soup for the Soul' books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. The first book contains all of the stories that I used in my seminars to illustrate the points that I wanted to make.
