"There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week."
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"It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh."
"For one moment our lives met, our souls touched."
"The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture."
"She was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation; she was the being who is feeble, dangerous, mysteriously troubling. And even more than her body of perdition, he hated her loving soul."
"The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing."
"True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in."
"Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?"
"We need to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation. We have lost our way. And it begins with inspiration. It begins with leadership."
"Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe."
"My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates."
"I'm not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul. I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?"
"You have been the last dream of my soul."
"The soul circumscribes all things."
"Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls."
"My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul."
"If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got."
"When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven."
"Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy."
"Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness" in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components."