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"The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far."
"A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason."
"Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams."
"I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me."
"The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys."
"I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be."
"No soul willfully does wrong."
"You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body."
"Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm."
"Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach."
"I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient."
"In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos."
"THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled --but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong."
"I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It calls out to us. It draws us close to its mystery, and grants us these remarkable minds, in order that we try to reach for it. It wants us to find it. It wants union with us, more than anything."
"A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake."
"It is easy to work when the soul is at play."
"Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God."
"No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere."
"I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!"
"I sold my soul to the devil. I'm going to hell. I'm headed to hell. I want the money, the women, the fortune, and the fame. That Means I'll end up burning in hell scorching in flames. Satan'll be in to see me later to see if I'm interested in being partners. Devil worshippin', Satan music."
