"Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul."
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"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."
"The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare."
"Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God."
"Sensuality is the death of the soul."
"With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite."
"Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of 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."
"He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept."
"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."
"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."
"Better lose your life than your 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."
"...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still."
"White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent."
"The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds."
"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."
"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."
"Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open."
"Music that is saturated with soul force is the real universal music, understandable by all hearts."