Paul Simon Quotes
I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.
Quotes to Explore
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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
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The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
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I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
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The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.
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When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul.
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One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.
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But our love it was stronger by far than the loveOf those who were older than we - Of many far wiser than we - And neither the angels in Heaven aboveNor the demons down under the seaCan ever dissever my soul from the soulOf the beautiful Annabel Lee
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[Peace] is the highest and most strenuous act of the soul, but an entirely harmonious act, in which all our powers and affections are blending in a beautiful proportion, and sustain and perfect one another. It is more than the silence after storms. It is as the concord of all melodious sounds ... an alliance of love with all beings, a sympathy with all that is pure and happy, a surrender of every separate will and interest, a participation of the spirit and life of the universe.... This is peace, and the true happiness of [humanity].
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The more money the louder it talks.
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Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.
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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.
