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"Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing."
"I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference."
"The corruption of the American soul is consumerism."
"Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul."
"Praise the Lord, my soul, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. The Lord works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed."
"I believe in Beatles, I believe my little soul has grown."
"Nothing's boring if it's in your soul."
"Reasoning from the common course of nature, and without supposing any new interposition of the Supreme Cause, which ought always to be excluded from philosophy; what is incorruptible must also be ingenerable. The soul, therefore, if immortal, existed before our birth: And if the former existence noways concerned us, neither will the latter."
"Soul and intellect are just the same things."
"If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses . . . only through discipline may a man learn to be free."
"No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life."
"A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Basically I craved prostitutes, base women, because they were deadly and hard and made no personal demands. Nothing was lost when they left. Yet at the same time I yearned for a gentle, good woman, despite the overwhelming price."
"True worship is not just an emotional experience. It reaches to the very depths of our souls and touches every aspect of our being"
"Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you."
"GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable."
"I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls."
"A brave soul is a thing which all things serve."
"The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman."
"It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising"