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"And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed."
"The soul is the prison of the body."
"Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness."
"Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there."
"And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture."
"Many ask me whether pranayama ... postpones old age. Why worry about it? Death is certain. Let it come when it comes. Just keep working. The soul has no age. It doesn't die. Only the body decays. And yet, we must never forget the body, since it is the garden we must cherish and cultivate."
"Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them."
"The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete."
"The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful."
"Wisdom is to the soul as food is to the body."
"I should not dare to call my soul my own."
"Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph."
"Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things."
"Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?"
"Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can ultimately lead to the deterioration and death of an individual, destructive criticism kills the soul of the person but leaves the body walking around."
"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul."
"I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds."
"Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times."
"I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are."
"The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul."
