Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
All disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first 'heal the soul'.
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Chess is mental torture.
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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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Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.
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I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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There's so many other things I want to do. I don't want to do them to be different or just for a challenge, but because my heart and soul tell me to.
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I just want to continue to pursue dancing. I want to focus on making it out there and showing everybody my heart and soul through dance... and do it until I can't walk anymore.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
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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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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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I sold my soul to the devil. I'm going to hell. I'm headed to hell. I want the money, the women, the fortune, and the fame. That Means I'll end up burning in hell scorching in flames. Satan'll be in to see me later to see if I'm interested in being partners. Devil worshippin', Satan music.
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It's no use just winning, we've got to win well.
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All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.
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Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.
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All disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first 'heal the soul'.
