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Honore de Balzac Novelist
Soul

"Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love."

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Honore de Balzac Novelist
Soul

"Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal."

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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist
Soul

"It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal."

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Huston Smith Philosopher
Soul

"First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat."

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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet
Soul

"I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world."

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Pablo Neruda Poet, Diplomat
Soul

"White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent."

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B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Teacher
Soul

"When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity."

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B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Teacher
Soul

"The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core."

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