"Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul."
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"The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls."
"The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment"
"A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist."
"Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it - and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you - for only the truth that builds up is truth for you."
"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."
"Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul."
"You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!"
"Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes. The soul passes hither and thither, occupying now this body, now that... As a wax is stamped with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet it is always the same wax. So, the Soul being always the same, yet wears at different times different forms."
"Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing."
"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."
"Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size."
"Happy is the moment we sit together, with two forms, with two faces, yet one soul. You and I."
"My body's feeling sore, but my soul is feeling pretty good."
"My soul is an empty carousel at sunset."
"What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music."
"Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul."
"What you are is much greater than anything or anyone else you have ever yearned for. God is manifest in you in a way that He is not manifest in any other human being. Your face is unlike anyone else's, your soul is unlike anyone else's, you are sufficient unto yourself; for within your soul lies the greatest treasure of all - God."
"If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life."
"Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul."