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99cd48a Books are the mirrors of the soul. metaphor soul Virginia Woolf
47d3a7b I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. mind individuality heart love diversity seduction soul Leo Tolstoy
56b4939 "What do you want?" "Just coffee. Black - like my soul." -- soul Cassandra Clare
579f0ae Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. inspirational spiritual-growth soul Carlos Ruiz Zafón
2d6aa88 Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but are the light inside. light lamp clockwork-angel jem-carstairs warrior soul Cassandra Clare
4c00620 Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you! poverty heartbreak heart love misconceptions plainness parting obscurity jane-eyre soul Charlotte Brontë
3d93202 Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are. soul José Saramago
533b92d The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye. mind interpretation soul Charlotte Brontë
aa278eb "When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety. When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil into silence, their senses eroded beyond fear. When great souls die, the air around us becomes light, rare, sterile. We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, see with a hurtful clarity. Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind words unsaid, promised walks never taken. Great souls die and our reality, bound to them, takes leave of us. Our souls, dependent upon their nurture, now shrink, wizened. Our minds, formed and informed by their radiance, fall away. We are not so much maddened as reduced to the unutterable ignorance of dark, cold caves. And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. poets poem poems poetry writing death life i-shall-not-be-moved when-great-trees-fall maya-angelou trees souls peace soul writers poet Maya Angelou
3ebe226 To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. soul Muriel Spark
5979992 I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. love finality soul Charles Dickens
8e78b20 "They say you cannot love two people equally at once," she said. "And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will--you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each other, or who would have imagined my love for one of them diminished by my love of the other. You merged your souls when you were both children. I could not have loved Will so much if I had not loved you as well. And I could not love you as I do if I had not loved Will as I did." epilogue james-castairs jem-castairs tessa theresa-gray william-herondale the-infernal-devices tessa-gray infernal-devices will-herondale jem will soul Cassandra Clare
ab973d3 I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don't worry. It's all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a dream already ended. There's nothing to be afraid of and nothing to be glad about. I know this from staring at mountains months on end. They never show any expression, they are like empty space. Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away? Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence of mind, the vast awakenerhood, empty and awake, will never crumble away because it was never born. born letter mountain empty space die soul Jack Kerouac
f96b111 I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts. religion philosophy soul Douglas Coupland
ab83be6 Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart. romance soul Wole Soyinka
fa0ab21 If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. gratitude love soul loyalty James Herriot
28648d7 It's worth making time to find the things that really stir your soul. That's what makes you really feel alive. You have to say 'no' to other things you're used to, and do it with all your heart. soul-and-heart stir-your-soul time inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism heart life inspirational awareness soul Roy T. Bennett
64588ca Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? temptation morality religion steadfastness doctrine law ethics principles soul Charlotte Brontë
eed97ad To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder? life self soul Ayn Rand
faef105 Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us. action change motivational success life inspirational living-in-the-present grudges seize-the-day anger resentment poison soul Steve Maraboli
795a3c7 Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds. spirituality life soul David Mitchell
e3d843c Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey. soul John O'Donohue
a9ac608 I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me. sleep sylvia-plath soul Sylvia Plath
5fde740 You will never follow your own inner voice until you clear up the doubts in your mind. follow-your-heart follow-your-inner-voice follow-your-intuition gut-feeling listen-your-inner-voice inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking spiritual optimism life inspirational inner-voice intuition awareness soul Roy T. Bennett
b415d9f To care about your outward appearance is important, but what's more important is to have a beautiful soul. spirit inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism heart life inspirational soul Roy T. Bennett
dc86427 Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul. dismiss spirituality wisdom inspirational soul Walt whitman
ad93431 Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul. abuse carefree child-abuse nightmares childhood soul Dave Pelzer
1fec3b4 She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog. women stubborn soul Stephen King
5c78852 It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed philosphy mystery soul Thomas Moore
f896f2b It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul. ged soul Ursula K. Le Guin
f49fd35 Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfillment. potential soul John O'Donohue
21b4a74 I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body. soul Paulo Coelho
cb9e765 We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. nourishment soul Paulo Coelho
319b94c There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls have touched. Our minds touched. Our hearts touched. Our souls touched. We separate. people love soul James Frey
e744cde You can have everything you want if you can put your heart and soul into everything you do. inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism heart life inspirational doing energy soul Roy T. Bennett
bd026fe To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul. life truth spiritual-development soul Oscar Wilde
debfb7c Beauty is the illumination of your soul. soul John O'Donohue
1b41f4e The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour. growth soul L.M. Montgomery
51eb574 "Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals." poetry truth growth soul Kahlil Gibran
cc6c26d How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul. words little-princess frances-hodgson-burnett communication language soul Frances Hodgson Burnett
d924b6d There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. soul Oscar Wilde
68abcb8 Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it. growth soul William James
4884849 Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul's possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level individuality mediocrity soul Gustave Flaubert
9c92375 You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just -- exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost. existence dementors-kiss remus-lupin empty soul J.K. Rowling
1d03ba9 Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched... death life wisdom soul J.K. Rowling
e4b24ab There's something about a place you've been with someone you love. It takes on a meaning in your mind. It becomes more than a place. It becomes a distillation of what you felt for each other. The moments you spend in a place with someone... they become part of its bricks and mortar. Part of its soul. memories love shadowhunters soul Cassandra Clare
14ddaa9 "Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues." character sadness music personal soul Nick Hornby
00729b9 And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame. virtue romance spirit purity soul Charlotte Brontë
db6a4dc Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life. love tragedies disappointment soul Thomas Moore
814a2d2 "Idris: Are all people like this? humanity human-greatness tardis the-doctor-s-wife vastness potential consciousness doctor-who soul Neil Gaiman
8493f94 Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die . . . It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. death legacy soul Ray Bradbury
688191c [...] I grew up out of that strange, dreamy childhood of mine and went into the world of reality. I met with experiences that bruised my spirit - but they never harmed my ideal world. That was always mine to retreat into at will. I learned that that world and the real world clashed hopelessly and irreconcilably; and I learned to keep them apart so that the former might remain for me unspoiled. I learned to meet other people on their own ground since there seemed to be no meeting place on mine. I learned to hide the thoughts and dreams and fancies that had no place in the strife and clash of the market place. I found that it was useless to look for kindred souls in the multitude; one might stumble on such here and there, but as a rule it seemed to me that the majority of people lived for the things of time and sense alone and could not understand my other life. So I piped and danced to other people's piping - and held fast to my own soul as best I could. spirit reality dreams soul L.M. Montgomery
e65cd8b She who saves a single soul, saves the universe. universe saves cheshire single wonderland cat soul Lewis Carroll
7c26e84 The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. resolutions soul starting-over G.K. Chesterton
47cdd17 Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine the impossibility of being human Villon expelled from Paris for being a thief Faulkner drunk in the gutters of his town the impossibility of being human Burroughs killing his wife with a gun Mailer stabbing his the impossibility of being human Maupassant going mad in a rowboat Dostoevsky lined up against a wall to be shot Crane off the back of a boat into the propeller the impossibility Sylvia with her head in the oven like a baked potato Harry Crosby leaping into that Black Sun Lorca murdered in the road by the Spanish troops the impossibility Artaud sitting on a madhouse bench Chatterton drinking rat poison Shakespeare a plagiarist Beethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafness the impossibility the impossibility Nietzsche gone totally mad the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly mad truth beatiful champions cowards bukowski glory creatures dog soul Charles Bukowski
7a2464e I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get. loneliness poem poetry people beauty superficial-beauty bukowski appearance superficial superficiality classics self reflection beautiful mirror lonely self-esteem soul ugly classic Charles Bukowski
b5dfd61 A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny. lazy soul Michel Faber
f6546cd "the worst thing," he told me, "is bitterness, people end up so bitter." personality individuality poem poetry death life love in-the-end bukowski bitterness self soul Charles Bukowski
ac3bd32 A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. soothing imagination dreams strength heart inspirational imaginary-friend richelle richelle-goodrich healing pretending soul Richelle E. Goodrich
6605c1d Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him. siddhartha hesse restlessness soul Hermann Hesse
1e96e0e The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul? soul Oscar Wilde
02ffae1 Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes. passion poetry reason soul Kahlil Gibran
a03f7a6 This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best. Night, sleep, and the stars. silence soul Walt Whitman
70d2c91 Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies? philosophy-of-life soul Plato
d1e8295 Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see. peace soul Zora Neale Hurston
63c3305 I wanted the monster back and that was plainly wrong. ian-o-shea the-host new-moon wanderer eclipse edward-cullen twilight soul Stephenie Meyer
6d42448 Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace. inspirational soul patience Brian Weiss
51fd073 I am not my body. My body is nothing without me. life health soul Tom Stoppard
260fb5a Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence. That goal must be attained by means of exact science and can only be achieved by such means. The fact that man, for ages, has superstitiously believed in what he calls a God does not prove at all that his theory has been right. There have been many gods - all makeshifts, born of inability to fathom the deep fundamental truth. There must be something at the bottom of existence, and man, in ignorance, being unable to discover what it is through reason, because his reason has been so imperfect, undeveloped, has used, instead, imagination, and created figments, of one kind or another, which, according to the country he was born in, the suggestions of his environment, satisfied him for the time being. Not one of all the gods of all the various theologies has ever really been proved. We accept no ordinary scientific fact without the final proof; why should we, then, be satisfied in this most mighty of all matters, with a mere theory immortality makeshift satisfaction theory wonder reason science truth inspirational superstitious falsehood miracles study theology naturalism gods destruction soul Thomas A. Edison
054a39a The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little. wealth soul Sherrilyn Kenyon
e195460 To be really mediaeval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes. humor wilde clothing greeks soul Oscar Wilde
8bcea09 It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul. tragedies soul Thomas Moore
023f101 "I love you," Matt said. I love you, too," Maria replied. "I know that's a sin, and I'll probably go to hell for it." If I have a soul, I'll go with you," promised Matt." love soul Nancy Farmer
b26057a The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would be to fall to the same low level. After all, even in prison, a man can be quite free. His soul can be free. His personality can be untroubled. He can be at peace. And, above all things, they are not to interfere with other people or judge them in any way. Personality is a very mysterious thing. A man cannot always be estimated by what he does. He may keep the law, and yet be worthless. He may break the law, and yet be fine. He may be bad, without ever doing anything bad. He may commit a sin against society, and yet realize through that sin his true perfection. violence personality freedom soul-of-a-man wilde oscar prison soul Oscar Wilde
fed89e0 Explore me,' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you and I cannot find the way out. Sometimes I think I'm free, coughed up like Jonah from the whale, but then I turn a corner and recognise myself again. Myself in your skin, myself lodged in your bones, myself floating in the cavities that decorate every surgeon's wall. That is how I know you. You are what I know. passion soul Jeanette Winterson
e6dc651 re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body. [From the preface to Leaves Grass] learning truth wisdom soul Walt Whitman
98c5403 Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don't, you will leak away your innate contentment. It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments. happiness blessings contentment pray soul Elizabeth Gilbert
7c57720 Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that's what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image. The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That's where you are. You've got to keep both going. As Novalis said, 'The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet. soul Joseph Campbell
3e92c6c What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul. soul Oscar Wilde
e4f2d06 He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart. murder heart psychopath the-silence-of-the-lambs heartlessness heartless serial-killer psychopaths monster human-nature horror soul Thomas Harris
4d64351 ...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still. siddhartha restlessness intellect soul Hermann Hesse
b7950e6 "I paid, got up, walked to the door, opened it. I heard the man say, "that guy's nuts." out on the street I walked north feeling curiously honored." irony poem poetry funny death life mental self honor crazy soul Charles Bukowski
2d5a20c She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her. life inspirational hurt soul Laurie Halse Anderson
0211800 When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep youth heart belief soul Maya Angelou
3f73b27 It's easy to look at people and make quick judgements about them, their present and their pasts, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. what a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceburg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul. romance love dark-hunters sherrilyn-kenyon sad soul Sherrilyn Kenyon
e46e256 "The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea; And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes. But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure; And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless. Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals." poetry truth growth soul Kahlil Gibran
6390523 "I have said that the soul is not more than the body, god whitman self soul Walt Whitman
4782e1e From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power. personality kindred-spirits brain connection power soul Oscar Wilde
1cde785 The soul ... has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. soul James Joyce
6f9d4e6 That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones. soul Neil Gaiman
31c8bd6 "So with curious eyes and sick surmise We watched him day by day, And wondered if each one of us Would end the self-same way, oscar-wilde soul eyes hell Oscar Wilde
79ce012 "You ask me why I don't love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess a person wholly, to admire and honour that person deeply, and to seek to secure that person's happiness in every way is to "love" then perhaps my affection for you is a kind of love. I will tell you this that your soul seems to me to be the most beautiful and simple soul in the world and it may be because I am so conscious of this when I look at you that my love or affection for you loses much of its violence." love uncertainty desire soul James Joyce
da2546d When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us. woman abondon intuition secrets soul Terry Tempest Williams
ccb10c6 Don't be so hard on yourself, You're doing the same thing, trying to reconcile all the moms that Mom ever was - The one you wanted, the one she was when you needed her and she was there, the one she was when she didn't understand. Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves. When someone dies, they all integrate into the soul - the essence of who we are, beyond the different faces we wear throughout our lives. You're just hating the selves you've always hated, and loving the ones you've always loved. It's bound to mess you up. love-h mother soul Christopher Moore
404183e He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied. graham-greene narcissism soul Graham Greene
29e5ccf To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are diregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars. individuality nature spirituality soul Thomas Hardy
7dd0e82 The secret and the sacred are sisters. When the secret is not respected, the sacred vanishes. Consequently, reflection should not shine too severe or aggressive a light on the world of the soul. secret shine sacred reflection soul John O'Donohue
cb0603d And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning. solitude performance reflection soul Patrick Süskind
e10f62f To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again living music soul Mary Stewart
2791b76 But it was not the room's disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder, one realized that it was not to be found in any of the usual places. For this was not a matter of habit or circumstance or temperament; it was a matter of punishment and grief. grief room punishment soul James Baldwin
834503a I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all. time personality history life humans soul James Baldwin
e24782e I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow. soul Elizabeth von Arnim
beff74a ...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived. self-knowledge self soul James Hillman
abbf128 This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven. love soul William Shakespeare
d804787 I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive. voldemort soul J.K. Rowling
59114ea As a general rule, I preferred not to have my soul reaped. the-last-olympian percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians soul sarcasm Rick Riordan
88ab7cd This is [her] soul group.' What do you mean?' It's a group of souls with whom she resonates closely. soul James Redfield
9e72622 "So whenever that brittle voice of dissatisfaction emerges within me, I can say "Ah, my ego! There you are, old friend!" It's the same thing when I'm being criticized and I notice myself reaching with outrage, heartache, or defensiveness. It's just my ego, flaring up and testing its power. In such circumstances, I have learned to watch my heated emotions carefully, but I try not to take them too seriously, because I know that it's merely my ego that has been wounded--never my soul It is merely my ego that wants revenge, or to win the biggest prize. It is merely my ego that wants to start a Twitter war against a hater, or to sulk at an insult or to quit in righteous indignation because I didn't get the outcome I wanted. "At such times, I can always steady my life one more by returning to my soul. I ask it, "And what is it that you want, dear one?" "The answer is always the same: "More wonder, please." "As long as I'm still moving in that direction---toward wonder--then I know I will always be fine in my soul, which is where it counts. And since creativity is still the most effective way for me to access wonder, I choose it." -- wonder defensiveness ego soul Elizabeth Gilbert
a53d035 We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don't, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it. life goal soul Paulo Coelho
a4babbd For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood. passion love sincerity soul trauma Euripides
600bd2a You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think? darkness soul James Joyce
f5ae23f The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. understanding fate pain sorrow comprehension farewell left choose leave part-ways separate wait sincere return seek realize hurt fitz wish follow knowledge desire fool soul Robin Hobb
89d3526 I am the Atma abiding in the heart of all beings. I am also the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings. lord-krishna soul Anonymous
ac0abfb Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. artists inspiration imagination art-and-life soul W. Somerset Maugham
707a0c9 She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see. soul Myla Goldberg
10cf827 Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul. writing walter-pater prose style soul Oscar Wilde
99d0dd3 I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. travel soul Paulo Coelho
e9c44a3 I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant). pact soul C.S. Friedman
cdc0a70 When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginnings and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree. youth hermann-hesse maturity roots soul Hermann Hesse
5c44b3a It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep...a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its axis. love soul Lisa Kleypas
246a37d so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again... heartbeat waves breath ocean soul Virginia Woolf
41f3477 Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is inevitable. The world hates Individualism. But that is not to trouble them. They are to be calm and self-centred. If a man takes their cloak, they are to give him their coat, just to show that material things are of no importance. If people abuse them, they are not to answer back. What does it signify? The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would be to fall to the same low level. After all, even in prison, a man can be quite free. His soul can be free. His personality can be untroubled. He can be at peace. And, above all things, they are not to interfere with other people or judge them in any way. Personality is a very mysterious thing. A man cannot always be estimated by what he does. He may keep the law, and yet be worthless. He may break the law, and yet be fine. He may be bad, without ever doing anything bad. He may commit a sin against society, and yet realise through that sin his true perfection. violence personality freedom soul-of-a-man wilde oscar prison soul Oscar Wilde
d579dbd If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home. edward soul eyes Laurell K. Hamilton
0047dd3 A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left. woman soul Lisa Kleypas
e5b07aa No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it's only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying, once gone, what is left is only an object. suffering dies soul Diana Gabaldon
91e62c3 I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things. spirit bless rudolfo ultima me river presence soul Rudolfo Anaya
1a19270 "Everybody has a soul." I turn to Pelly. "And that means you, too." "I'm not so sure of that," he says. "What does it feel like?" "Having a soul?" I look at Maxine, but she only shrugs. "I don't know," I tell Pelly. "I don't have anything to compare it to- you know, what not having a sould would feel like." We fall into a kind of awkward silence. I don't know about the others, but I'm working on what a soul is and not coming up with a whole lot. I mean, I just always thought of it as me- what I feel like being me. But surely Pelly feels like himself, so that means he's got a soul right? But if that's not your soul, then what is? It's weird and not something you really think about, is it?" thoughts soul Charles deLint
66e1af2 "The more I think about myself, the more I'm persuaded that, as a person, I really don't exist. That is one of the reasons why I can't believe in any orthodox religion: I cannot believe in my own soul. No, I am a chemical compound, conditioned by environment and education. My "character" is simply a repertoire of acquired tricks, my conversation a repertoire of adaptations and echoes, my "feelings" are dictated by purely physical, external stimuli." soul Christopher Isherwood
22d5c73 Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls. war kill soul Douglas R. Hofstadter
88db4ec If her soul ever leaks, I want it to land on me. soul Markus Zusak
9f3228c What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable layer of mould, some delicate blades of grass, young and tender, were already pushing their way upwards, destined to take root and send out living shoots so effectively that her all-consuming grief would soon be lost and forgotten. The wound was healing from inside. healing wound soul Leo Tolstoy
c9a7a3d Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul. god soul Peter Kreeft
df9e814 And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing - maybe more important than a star. This is not theology. I have no bent toward gods. But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'thou mayest'. man john-steinbeck theology soul John Steinbeck
f80399f You show me what someone listens to, I'll tell you everything you want to know about his soul. (For instance, a bunch of Nickelback albums would have indicated he never had a soul in the first place.) music nickelback soul Tad Williams
c6b6db5 "Man's conscious state is an awareness of body and breath. His subconscious state, active in sleep, is associated with his mental, and temporary, separation from body and breath. His superconscious state is a freedom from the delusion that "existence" depends on body and breath. God lives without breath; the soul made in his image becomes conscious of itself, for the first time, only during the breathless state." sleep soul Paramahansa Yogananda
03c286b fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul. human the-zahir soul Paulo Coelho
a7adc59 To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be. spirit meant-to-be purpose resistance soul Steven Pressfield
0cc15e3 It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul. heart soul Lawrence Durrell
c49bf90 She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surely the spirit animating that pearless body must be unusual too? Why would nature make a vessel like that, if not to contain something still more valuable? soul J.K. Rowling
8b07895 The reflection, the verisimilitude, of life that shines in the fleshly cells from the soul source is the only cause of man's attachment to his body; obviously he would not pay solicitous homage to a clod of clay. A human being falsely identifies himself with his physical form because the life currents from the soul are breath-conveyed into the flesh with such intense power that man mistakes the effect for a cause, and idolatrously imagines the body to have life of its own. life-force soul Paramahansa Yogananda
bfa429f And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be. spirit faith death change life belief soul alice walker
5e281f9 For there is not a single human being, not even the primitive Negro, not even the idiot, who is so conveniently simple that his being can be explained as the sum of two or three principal elements; and to explain so complex a man as Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt. Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two. His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousand and thousands. spirituality philosophy truth soul Hermann Hesse
ea7905b Sometimes callers from a distance invade my solitude, and it is on these occasions that I realize how absolutely alone each individual is, and how far away from his neighbour; and while they talk (generally about babies, past, present, and to come), I fall to wondering at the vast and impassable distance that separates one's own soul from the soul of the person sitting in the next chair. soul Elizabeth von Arnim
8f2d7d6 Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin. rheumatism soul L.M. Montgomery
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