Abandoned Quote by Annie Besant

A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth.

— Brian Weiss

The soul has neither beginning nor end [They] come into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of their previous…

— Origen

Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that…

— John O'Donohue

Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

— Leon Bloy

The life of the soul is incalculable.

— Margaret Fuller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success…

— Helen Keller

We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our…

— Paulo Coelho

Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about…

— Parker J. Palmer

Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.

— Michelangelo

The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other…

— Mechthild of Magdeburg

“The tension of the soul in unhappiness, which cultivates its strength; its horror at the sight of the great destruction; its inventiveness and bravery…

— Friedrich Nietzsche