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"We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don't, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it."
"Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient."
"It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul."
"The Soul should always stand ajar."
"The Soul selects her own Society."
"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse."
"We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul."
"I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame."
"Reggae is my heart ♥ reggae is my soul"
"A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky."
"Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young."
"Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it."
"Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul."
"But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant"
"The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality."
"Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God."
"the soul of conversation is sympathy"
"The psychological impotence of our enraged generation must be traced to the overwhelming accusation of insincerity which every man and woman has to confront, in the depths of his own soul, when he seeks to love merely for his own pleasure.And yet the men of our time do not love with enough courage to risk even discomfort or inconvenience."
"When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood."
"Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I talk to you now is as rigorous in causation as that you listen to me. There is no freedom until you go beyond Maya. That is the real freedom of the soul."
