"Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that."
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"If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body."
"Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude."
"Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still and listen to the evidence of your own holiness."
"The human soul develops up to the time of death."
"sometimes i get up at dawn, and even my soul is wet."
"The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings."
"Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless."
"I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred truths... I can see much to admire in all religions... But whether there be a God and whatever be His nature; whether we have an immortal soul or not, or whatever may be our state after death, I can have no fear of having to suffer for the study of nature and the search for truth."
"Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible."
"Judy Garland is a singer with a capital S. And talk about soul. This woman was soul personified. Judy Garland is a class by herself."
"If my soul exists without my body I am convinced all my clothes will be loose-fitting"
"Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them."
"How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?"
"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."
"Virtue is the beauty of the soul."
"Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?"
"If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force."
"This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul."
"Spirituality is the science of the Soul."