Soul Quotes
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to things in order that he might have knowledge of them. But because man is naturally political and social, there is need for one man to make his conceptions known to others, which is done with speech. So significant speech was needed if men were to live together. Which is why those of different tongues do not easily live together.
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The soul is never perfectly secure from the influence of passion; the occasional tranquility she seems to enjoy, is rather relaxation than imperturbable triumph.
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Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.
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[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.
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Joy is the characteristic by which God uses us to re-make the distressing into the desired, the discarded into the creative. Joy is prayer-Joy is strength-Joy is love-Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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If we are generous enough, we can stretch our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embraces the past and the future and that the whole world is our province.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
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I will put my heart and soul into making sure that the care your son or daughter or mum or dad receives is the same I would want for my own family.
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It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.
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Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?
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My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as the sonic choices, in the way that I sing and write songs. I have always had that as part of my background and part of my influence when I am making music.
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What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?
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Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.
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Oh! that my soul had winged its flight, When first I saw the morning light, To worlds of liberty!
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The content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, 'the body is the placenta of the soul'
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Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.
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Our sacred contract is not a literal document. That's the first thing to understand. We could think of our sacred contract as a spiritual document that our soul recognizes.
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Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form.
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Music is a mantra that soothes the soul...something our body has to have. It's important to understand the power of music.
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It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.
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Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
