"Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul."
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"When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it."
"Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own."
"All the wonders you seek are within yourself. We should seek to discover our own special light. Know how to live within yourself; there in your soul lives a whole world of mysterious and enchanted thoughts; they will be drowned by noise of this world. Be still and listen to their singing and be silent."
"Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves."
"Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul."
"Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there."
"When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the courage to mercilessly pluck it out."
"The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine."
"Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart."
"Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure."
"If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important"
"The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination."
"The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept."
"My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze."
"Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness"
"The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul."
"The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul."
"Beautiful thoughts, build a beautiful soul."
"Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul. ...There's always something beautiful to be experienced wherever you are."