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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and re...

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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing - maybe more important t...

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Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body...

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The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears.

As for reputation, though it be a glorious instrument of advancing our Master's service, yet there i...

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To explain this a little further: Only the soul and the body are the natural constituent parts of me...

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John WesleyHow To Pray: The Best of John Wesley on Prayer

As it is with spiritual discoveries and affections given at first conversion, so it is in all subseq...

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Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, ar...

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Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of...

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In my soul the afternoon grows wider and I reflect.

... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry emp...

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Josef PieperHappiness and Contemplation

Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things out...

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Josef PieperHappiness and Contemplation

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul w...

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Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your n...

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Joseph CampbellThe Power of Myth

Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the...

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José Ortega y GassetOn Love: Aspects of a Single Theme

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

-So you don't believe we have souls I guess?" and Legs laughed and said, "Yeah probably we do but wh...

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Joyce Carol OatesFoxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang

And remember: you must not overwork your body, or your soul. You must not enslave yourself, as you w...

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Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.

I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too...

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You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don’t ever forget that you p...

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A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soul...

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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been ac...

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I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagin...

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If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have s...

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The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Pra...

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I was always an unusual girl.My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due...

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I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in h...

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I will take your heart.I will take your soul out of your bodyAs though I were God.I will not be sati...

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So the unwanting soulsees what's hidden,and the ever-wanting soulsees only what it wants.

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