Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of your wings be burnt by the flame, let your feet be lacerated by the thorns, let your heart be stirred by human emotion, and let your soul be lifted beyond the earth. 

~Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Call of the Dervish

Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times. 

~ Vaclav Havel

The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had. 

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the real person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt. 

~ Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Alchemical Wisdom

Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. 

Jalaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members, a heart of grace, and a soul generated by love.  

~ Coretta Scott King

The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.

~ St. Isaac of Ninevah 

On the Harm of Foolish Zeal that Has the Guise of Being Divine