"Allow your dog to take you for a walk every day. It's good for the body and it's good for the soul."
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"The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are."
"Your soul was like a network of spittle."
"My smile is my way of saying: "You can destroy my body, but not my soul."
"Sometimes, we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see."
"Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take."
"The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things."
"Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly."
"You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul."
"It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be."
"The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt."
"SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice. THRASYMACHUS: And how am I to convince you, he said, if you are not already convinced by what I have just said; what more can I do for you? Would you have me put the proof bodily into your souls?"
"All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move."
"In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business."
"Of course you can't stop. It is physically impossible for the human mind to think of nothing. The soul craves emotion, and it will continue to seek fuel for that emotion-good or bad. Your problem is that you're giving it the wrong fuel."
"Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness."
"Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times."
"I sold my soul to the devil in L.A"
"Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls."
"Lord help my poor soul."