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• We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the human soul.

  Dave Earley

  Soul, Longing, Hunger

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• The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

  George Eliot

  Soul, Opinion, Contradictory

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.139

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• There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Past, Soul, Infinite

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.169

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• How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul.

  Emily Dickinson

  Soul, Bears, Chariots

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.16, Harvard University Press

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• If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.

  John Ruskin

  Flower, Moving, Animal

  John Ruskin, Cook (1905). “Works”

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• There seems to be something in the human soul that causes us to think less of ourselves every time we do something wrong... And maybe it is good for us to feel that way. It may make us more sensitive to what we do wrong and move us to repent and grow.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Moving, Thinking, Soul

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• Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

  Simone Weil

  Punishment, Soul, Needs

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.19, Routledge

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• Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin to mathematics, and the charm of humble awe, which is engendered by meditation on the human soul and its experiences. Philosophy is characterized by the gentle, if firm, refusal to succumb to either charm.

  Leo Strauss

  Philosophy, Humble, Men

  Leo Strauss, Hilail Gildin (1989). “An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays”, p.39, Wayne State University Press

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• It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after all, the world is the worst possible place, the most corrupting place, for the human soul. And just as there is no escape from the world, which follows us into the very heart of the desert, so the actor cannot escape the theatre. And the actor who is a dreamer need not. All of us can only strive to remain uncontaminated. In the world we must be unworldly, in the theatre the actor must be untheatrical.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Heart, Soul, Dreamer

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• Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem for the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

  Pat Barker

  Butterfly, Cutting, Soul

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• Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

  Martyn

  Prayer, Men, Soul

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• The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before. Creation brings satisfaction and fulfillment. We develop ourselves and others when we take organized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Hands, Soul, Wish

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• I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.

  Will Oldham

  Thinking, Soul, Church

  Will Oldham (2012). “Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. There are two equally dangerous extremes- to shut reason out, and not to let nothing in.

  Blaise Pascal

  Greatness, Two, Knowing

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• Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.

  Jimmy Carter

  Wind, Profound, Spirit

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• The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Soul, Mind, Path

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• The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.

  Iris Murdoch

  Loneliness, Games, Soul

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.89, Penguin

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• Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

  Margaret Fuller

  Soul, Failing, Know How

  Margaret Fuller, Joel Myerson (1978). “Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters”, p.87, Rowman & Littlefield

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• On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable separation of the opposites. . . . It seems to me to be the Holy Spirit's task and charge to reconcile and reunite the opposites in the human individual through a special development of the human soul.

  Carl Jung

  Son, Opposites, Evil

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• The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G.K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Unique, Land, Play

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• The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.

  Joseph Stalin

  Glasses, Soul, Important

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• All that Christ did and suffered would have been necessary had only one human soul been the object of redemption; and nothing different and nothing more would have been required had every child of Adam been saved through his blood.

  Charles Hodge

  Children, Blood, Soul

  Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.545

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• Never lose yourself on the stage. Always act in your own person, as an artist. The moment you lose yourself on the stage marks the departure from truly living your part and the beginning of exaggerated false acting. Therefore, no matter how much you act, how many parts you take, you should never allow yourself any exception to the rule of using your own feelings. To break that rule is the equivalent of killing the person you are portraying, because you deprive him of a palpitating, living, human soul, which is the real source of life for a part.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Real, Artist, Exception To The Rule

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• Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Echoes, Essence

  Carl Gustav Jung (1956). “Symbols of transformation”

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• The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Boredom, Soul

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.226, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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