Diane Ackerman Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

  Diane Ackerman

  Commitment, Compassion, Hatred

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “I Praise My Destroyer: Poems”, p.3, Vintage

• Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.

  Diane Ackerman

  Life Changing, People, Soul

• If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?

  Diane Ackerman

  Heart, Blood, Worry

• And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can't really share the enormity of our lives.

  Diane Ackerman

  Soul, Share, Our Lives

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company

• Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.

  Diane Ackerman

  Soul, Body, Danger

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis”, p.267, Vintage

• On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.

  Diane Ackerman

  Summer, New York, Eight

  "Living, Thinking Houses". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. August 2012.

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