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She said that each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by our...

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If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home.

It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost ...

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Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions...

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A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workin...

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I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than o...

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Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is no sky but only an atmospher...

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Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

He was nine years old; he was a child; he he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded i...

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I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kin...

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Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-h...

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It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul, and...

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Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentime...

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What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been g...

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She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movement...

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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

I’m not using any word,” Ronan said. The annoying thing about Ronan was always that he was angry whe...

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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiri...

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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

You should recognize that man’s soul, this single entity whose powers and parts we have described, m...

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MaimonidesRambam: Shemonah Perakim

For even if we have the sensation of being always surrounded by our own soul, it is not as though by...

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I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give...

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You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn o...

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Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It ca...

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Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul, and is also the ...

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The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It...

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Maria V. SnyderPoison Study

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in...

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Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your so...

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I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and i...

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Mark HelprinA Soldier of the Great War

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action,and becau...

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Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create a magic m...

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For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to ...

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But I am also concerned about our moral uprightness and the health of our souls. Therefore I must op...

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How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

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

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

We are not wrong, perhaps, to be heedful of justice in the midst of a universe that heeds not at all...

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Look upon men and things with the inner eye, with its form and desire, never forgetting that the sha...

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And it is because we all of us know of this sombre power and its perilous manifestations, that we st...

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It is a thing that knows no limit, and before it all men are equal; and the silence of king or slave...

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As gold and silver are weighed in pure water, so does the soul test its weight in silence, and the w...

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If I tell some one that I love him – as I may have told a hundred others – my words will convey noth...

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Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beau...

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When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

Death has come and atoned for all. I have no grievance against the soul of the man before me. Instin...

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In all truth might it be said that beauty is the unique aliment of our soul, for in all places does ...

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Must we always be warned, and can we only fall on our knees when some one is there to tell us that G...

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Maurice MaeterlinckThe Treasure of the humble

To love one’s neighbour in the immovable depths means to love in others that which is eternal; for o...

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It is the disaster of our entire existence that we live thus away from our soul, and stand in such d...

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Be good at the depth of you, and you will discover that those who surround you will be good even to ...

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This invisible and divine goodness, of which I only speak here because of its being one of the sures...

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Thousands of channels there are through which the beauty of your soul may sail even unto our thought...

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May it not be the supreme aim of life thus to bring to birth the inexplicable within ourselves; and ...

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Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and i...

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There needs but so little to encourage beauty in our soul; so little to awaken the slumbering angels...

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To love thus is to love according to the soul; and there is no soul that does not respond to this lo...

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Maurice MaeterlinckThe Treasure of the humble

He is wise who at last sees in suffering only the light that it sheds on his soul; and whose eyes ne...

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When Great Trees FallWhen great trees fall,rocks on distant hills shudder,lions hunker downin tall g...

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When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

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Maya AngelouI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

...music, if it really resonates, will beat somewhere right near your heartbeat. That music will mak...

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Maynard James KeenanA Perfect Union of Contrary Things

The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.

The other day as I was stepping out of Star Grocery on Claremont Avenue with some pork ribs under my...

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A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and disca...

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Michel FaberThe Crimson Petal and the White

Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because t...

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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

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

A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to n...

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The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story o...

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The old duality of body and soul has become shrouded in scientific terminology, and we can laugh at ...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.. you cannot suppo...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

If Canada had a soul (a doubtful proposition, Moses thought) then it wasn't to be found in Batoche o...

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Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and com...

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I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly...

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Muhammad AliThe Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chanc...

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Muhammad AliThe Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

The men laugh at the witty line, but it is not a belly laugh. Beasley's mouth is in a wide smile, bu...

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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is ...

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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

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Muriel SparkThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your u...

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To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, be...

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There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside.

That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is ...

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I’m just a soul whose intentions are good,’“ he sang to the crabs and the spiders and the palmetto b...

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The dread had not left my soul.

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movem...

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The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another wi...

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Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days...

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A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes f...

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My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.

When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An...

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