Charles Grandison Finney Quotes
Every moment of your lives you are exerting a tremendous influence, that will tell on the immortal interests of souls around you. Are you asleep, while your conduct is exerting such an influence?
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I describe a soulmate as a 'soul-nurturing mate' - someone who nurtures your soul - thereby promoting insight and growth.
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
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There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.
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Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.
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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
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And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floorShall be lifted - nevermore!
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I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell:'
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No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.
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I knew better than to let you break my heart The soul you'll never see again won't be showing scars You still love her I can see it in your eyes The truth is all that I can hear every time you lie.
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My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.
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But now if I can wrap myself up in that song, and when that song gets to be a part of me, and affects me emotionally, then the emotions that I go through, chances are I’ll be able to communicate to you. Make the people out there become a part of the life of this song that you’re singing about. That’s soul when you can do that.1
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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
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Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.
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Every moment of your lives you are exerting a tremendous influence, that will tell on the immortal interests of souls around you. Are you asleep, while your conduct is exerting such an influence?
