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"But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?"
"Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers' lips."
"Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live."
"The man, most man, Works best for men, and, if most men indeed, He gets his manhood plainest from his soul: While, obviously, this stringent soul itself Obeys our old rules of development; The Spirit ever witnessing in ours, And Love, the soul of soul, within the soul, Evolving it sublimely."
"She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision."
"If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad."
"I have no time for things that have no soul."
"Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God."
"We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and that is going to take a tremendous amount of sheer hard work. The only force which can break down those barriers is the force of love, the force of truth, soul-force."
"The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person."
"I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things"
"The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time."
"Sin is whatever obscures the soul."
"The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing."
"There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle."
"[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it"
"The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement."
"The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul."
"The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it."
"When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God."
