"I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers."
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"Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be."
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"Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude."
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"The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge."
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"Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small: Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my life, my all."
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"The soul grows by subtraction, not addition."
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"Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul."
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"Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?"
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"Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering."
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"Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?"
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"Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall . . . everything."
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"My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body and soul."
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"I drove away from my mind everything capable of spoiling the sense of the presence of God.... I just make it my business to persevere in His holy presence... My soul has had an habitual, silent, secret conversation with God."
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"Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty."
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"Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I've got nothing but my aching soul?"
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"The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack."
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"If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls."
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"Let your soul and spirit fly."
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"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter."
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"As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul."
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