Soul
Quotes
" Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually
bypasses the soul."
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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" Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul
the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the
other."
Henry David Thoreau
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" A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in
two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness
to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to
the soul."
Plato
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" I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the
soul that cures its own sufferings dies."
Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S.
Merwin
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" One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to
be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know
if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let
it get in again to that of any other."
Lord Byron
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" Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye,
while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure
until next year?"
Horace
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" Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat
than in his own soul."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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" When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's
souls give off such a pungent smell of decay."
Octave Mirbeau
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" Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy
soul."
Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Following the
Equator, 1897
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" When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in
you, a joy. When action come from another section, the feeling
disappears."
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
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