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"Someone from Manolo Blahnik went into my shop and said: 'These shoes are not vegetarian.' That's the highest compliment, because you just can't tell that they are, and they are. My mum taught me to have a soul."
"This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger."
"Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the Soul . . ."
"Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire."
"Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty."
"The mind is the eyesight of the soul."
"Love is an immortal wound that cannot be closed up. A person loses something, a part of her soul, when she loves someone. And she goes about looking for that lost part of her soul, for she knows that otherwise she is incomplete and cannot be at rest. It is only when she is with the person she loves that she becomes complete again in herself; but the moment he leaves, she loses that part which he has taken with him and knows no rest till she has found him once more."
"To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul."
"As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life."
"Wilderness is a necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. Food and drink is not all. There is the spiritual. In some it is only a germ, of course, but the germ will grow."
"Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit."
"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted."
"God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love."
"There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit."
"To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go."
"Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation."
"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
"Literature is the history of the soul."
"Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul."
"The soul never thinks without a picture."
