Soul Quotes
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A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.
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I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get really soul-sucking.
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The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.
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Praise lies upon a higher plane than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle about myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration.
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Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.
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From the moment a soul has the grace to know God, she must seek.
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I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.
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The important element is the way in which all things are connected. Every thought and action sends shivers of energy into the world around us, which affects all creation. Perceiving the world as a web of connectedness helps us to overcome the feelings of separation that hold us back and cloud our vision. This connection with all life increases our sense of responsability for every move, every attitude, allowing us to see clearly that each soul does indeed make a difference to the whole.
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Maybe stories are just data with a soul.
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What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a certain element of blues, even a hint of soul or blues music, derivative of African-American blues, folk, spiritual, or gospel.
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Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.
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You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.
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But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer; and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or conversation with the power recognized as divine, we can easily see that scientific criticism leaves it untouched. Prayer in this wide sense is the very soul and essence of religion.
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The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.
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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
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The blessing of God enriches the soul for eternity while that given by the world enriches the body temporarily.
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No coward soul is mine.
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The Greater Soul moves in only one direction, and that is to bring into union that which has been made separate.
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Or maybe I had known him or maybe there's something that happens between some people at a level that goes beyond time measurements and what society thinks is proper. Maybe what had happened between Stark and me in those few minutes in the field house had been enough to have our souls recognize each other. Soul mates? Was that even possible?
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Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.
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All human beings are the same. In the United States, people come from all over the world, all races, all backgrounds. And they're all doing what they want, many scoring huge successes. When I saw that, I became more open. It freed my soul.
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My soul desires a pre-industrial world, and since I can't have that, I don't really care for anything material.
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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
