My Soul Quotes - Page 13

• I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Long Ago, Soul, Accepting

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.

  Richard Hovey

  Travel, Sunset, Soul

  Avi, Karen Cushman, Henry Wysham Lanier, Peg C. Schwabel, Cynthia Corzo (2000). “The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle and related readings”

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• And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.

  George Meredith

  Soul, Oblivion, Drink

  George Meredith (1912). “Poems of George Meredith”, p.227, Library of Alexandria

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• I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Men, Soul

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.47, Xist Publishing

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• My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.

  Dante Alighieri

  Giving, Soul, Appetite

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio, Song XXXI, 128, 1321.

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• My soul to-day Is far away Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.

  Thomas Buchanan Read

  Soul, Sailing, Far Away

  Thomas Buchanan Read (1860). “Poems by Thomas Buchanan Read”, p.409

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• Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light The consolation of the dawn for me,-- Between the shadowy burns of Heaven and Hell, It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell With memory.

  Madison Cawein

  Memories, Lying, Night

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• I sang 'A Closer Walk with Thee' along with blues singer Brownie McGhee, ... Then there was a show where Carol Houston, an actress on 'Matlock' sang 'It Is Well With My Soul' accompanied by a choir. Boy, that was powerful.

  Andy Griffith

  Powerful, Boys, Soul

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• I have to work, for my soul.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Soul, Obsession

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• May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is.

  E. Howard Hunt

  Sad, Death, God

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• Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.

  Teresa of Avila

  Hope, Long, Soul

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• My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sweet, Grief, Heart

  "Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 1796-1812" edited by Henry Foljambe Hall, 1901.

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• I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

  Saint Patrick

  Character, Angel, Soul

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• I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have been touched by beauty. The words Beauty, Inspiration, Magic, Spellbound, Enchantment, as well as the concepts of Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement, all these have nestled in my soul. Though I am fully aware that I have not done them complete justice in my work, they have never ceased to be my guiding lights.

  Luis Barragan

  Inspiration, Light, Justice

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• My body is precious and not separate from my soul.

  Sark

  Soul, Body

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• Climbing had captured my soul.

  Lincoln Hall

  Adventure, Climbing, Soul

  Lincoln Hall (2008). “Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest”, p.19, Penguin

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• I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still... I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Romantic, Summer

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.201, Harvard University Press

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• ... if, to me, to live is Christ (Phil. 1:21), truly my words ought to be about Christ, my every thought and deed ought to depend upon His commandments, and my soul to be fashioned after His.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Soul, Deeds

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• ... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.

  Emily Dickinson

  Depression, Space, Soul

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.141, Harvard University Press

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• I believe it to my soul that you're the devil in nylon hose, for the harder I worker the faster my money goes.

  Big Joe Turner

  Believe, Evil, Soul

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• Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day.

  Arthur Miller

  Success, Country, Thinking

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.226, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
  We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Sun, Calm

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.35, NYU Press

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• And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness, Musing upon the night's calm majesty; Wrapt up in quietness, with shade and silence, My soul more closely worshippeth Thy presence; With an internal day I feel enlighten'd, And hear a voice, which biddeth me to hope.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Lonely, Stars, Sleep

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies”, p.18

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• I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Party, Years, Practice

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.35, Vintage

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• In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of these have found a loving home in my soul.

  Luis Barragan

  Inspiration, Home, Silence

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