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The soul is the weariest part of the body.

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Paul BowlesThe Sheltering Sky

it’s that sense of powerlessness that destroyed my soul. i cannot be as good as i would like to be.n...

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I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or r...

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I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.

It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your destiny. It pre...

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We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the bo...

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We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the bo...

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fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.

Yes, she now believed that when her body died, her soul would go on. Gods she did not worship, and f...

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Pearl S. BuckPavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters

Yes! all is past—swift time has fled away,Yet its swell pauses on my sickening mind;How long will ho...

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And Pantalaimon didn't ask why, because he knew; and he didn't ask whether Lyra loved Roger more tha...

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The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t...

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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way...

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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows fro...

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Knowledge is the food of the soul.

There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and ...

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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?

... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but h...

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if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or ...

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

The human spirit is so utterly one with the body that the term "form" can be used of the body and re...

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Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.

Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perish...

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.

I write not for the sake of glory. Not for the sake of fame. Not of the sake of success. But for the...

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When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affect...

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Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it fol...

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The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest probl...

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The one thing in the world of value is the active soul.

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These ...

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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. I...

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From a personality point of view, you develop judgment, but from the sou's point of view, you develo...

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Ram DassPolishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of ...

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Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene ...

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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your...

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But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.

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Ray BradburyLong After Midnight

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most ...

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Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I lo...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul.

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more,  One task more declined, one more footpath untro...

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Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistak...

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There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money.

Because the world is in a sick condition and we are all somehow infected, against our will, even if ...

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... Man is not truly one, but truly two... even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only...

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Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Even Diotima and Amheim were shy of using it without a modifier, for it is still possible to speak o...

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Robert MusilThe Man Without Qualities: Vol. 1

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

You are an Universe of Universes and your soul a source of songs.

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously in...

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A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its ...

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Feelings are for the soul what food is for the body.

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Rudolf SteinerHow to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation

Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so...

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Rudolf SteinerTheosophy: An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through h...

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Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.

The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to rec...

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Ruskin BondThe Lamp is Lit: Leaves from a Journal

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; bu...

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Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the flu...

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If he believed in souls he would have said she had a good one.

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Salman RushdieTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

Ibn Rushd caressing her body had often praised its beauty to the point at which she grew irritated a...

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Salman RushdieTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worship...

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Salvador DalíThe Secret Life of Salvador Dalí

Ada: And why life? (Pause.) Why life, Henry? (Pause.) Is there anyone about?Henry: Not a living soul...

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This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will bl...

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I would not have a god come in To shield me suddenly from sin, And set my house of life to rights; N...

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Just because your soul is being torn to pieces doesn't mean that you stop analyzing the phenomena.

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Saul BellowHumboldt's Gift

He didn't ask "Where will you spend eternity?" as religious the-end-is-near picketers did but rather...

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Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despi...

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Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really in...

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Simone WeilGravity and Grace

There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if ...

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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

If the soul is immortal, it demands our care not only for that part of time which we call life, but ...

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A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come.

...[W]hen death comes to a man, the mortal part of him dies, but the immortal part retires at the ap...

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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart whi...

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Still the invisible Magnet drew his soul

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Sri AurobindoSavitri: A Legend and a Symbol

The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:It longed for the adventure of Ignorance

The inner light actually comes from the soul; it is already inside us. The moment we can have free a...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

Has your soul a special mission? Yes. Your mission is in the inmost recesses of your heart, and you ...

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Sri ChinmoyYoga And The Spiritual Life; The Journey Of India's Soul

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

But as the girl timidly accosted him, he gave a convulsive movement and saved hisrespectability by a...

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Stephen CraneMaggie: A Girl of the Streets & Other Stories

There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.

Isn't bravery always sort of beautiful?

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard do...

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I wanted the monster back and that was plainly wrong.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive o...

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In my dreams I come face to face with myriad reflections of myself, all unknown and passing strange....

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The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, sta...

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The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily deva...

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Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature