"My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own."
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"Being a celebrity has taught me to hide but being an actor has opened my soul."
"The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost."
"The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it."
"We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body."
"Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one."
"You have my soul and I have your money"
"Greed has poisoned men's souls."
"The only possible recourse a baby has when his screams are ignored is to repress his distress, which is tantamount to mutilating his soul, for the result is an interference with his ability to feel, to be aware, and to remember."
"To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?"
"O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!"
"Christ heals with more ease than any other. Christ makes the devil go out with a word (Mark 9:25). Nay, he can cure with a look: Christ's look melted Peter into repentance; it was a healing look. If Christ doth but cast a look upon the soul he can recover it. Therefore David prays to have a look from God, 'Look Thou upon me, and be merciful unto me' (Psalm 119:132)."
"The soul in man is greater than his fate."
"There is no other teacher but your own soul."
"The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!"
"To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul."
"If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed."
"Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it."
"Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of."
"The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body"