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"The spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure builds it better than before."
"There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts."
"Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul."
"Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it's in your gut, your soul, there's nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression."
"mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born."
"People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS."
"All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul."
"Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum aesthetic results, so God tailor-made our bodies, souls and spirits to work together in consonance to produce pleasing expressions of praise and worship. When we use body language to express praise, that which is internal becomes visible."
"Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place."
"Be bold, take courage... and be strong of soul"
"Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts."
"Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy."
"Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed."
"Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure."
"What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul."
"A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence."
"Humiliate the reason and distort the soul."
"You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them."
"Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat."
"I have a low opinion of books; they are but piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention. No amount of word-making will ever make a single soul to know these mountains. As well seek to warm the naked and frostbitten by lectures on caloric and pictures of flame. One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books."
