Soul Quotes - Page 32

• The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less,
  it comes or it lags behind,
  It comes from its embowered garden
  and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Garden, Looks

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.118, NYU Press

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• He who perceives in the spiritual world must know that at times Imaginations are assigned to him which at first he must forego understanding; he must receive them as Imaginations and let them ripen in his soul as such. In spiritual experience, much depends on a man having the patience to make observations, at first to simply accept them, and to wait with understanding them until the right moment arrives.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Men, Imagination

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• Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

  Saint Augustine

  Loss, Fortitude, Disposition

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• Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Two, Understanding, And Love

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• In so far as divine love beautifies our souls. And makes us pleasing to His divine Majesty, it is called grace; in so far as it gives us strength to do good, it is called charity; but when it reaches such a degree of perfection, that it makes us not only do the good, but do so carefully, frequently and readily, then it is called devotion.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Love Is, Giving, Perfection

  Saint Francis (de Sales), St. Francis de Sales, Allan Ross (2009). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Sleep, Insomnia, Body

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Anxiety, Feelings, Emptiness

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• No soul willfully does wrong.

  Plato

  Doe

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• I think parenting actually makes you lose pieces of your soul again, because they go off, into your children. Or, I mean, I am so fragmented, and I'm such a spacey person.

  Larkin Grimm

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I remember there was this one lady shaman who said that having children puts a hole in your soul. And the only way to get it back is for your children to die. And, you know, monks don't have families.

  Larkin Grimm

  Children, Way, Remember

  "Swinging Modern Sounds #35: The Location Of The Soul". Interview with Rick Moody, therumpus.net. April 20, 2012.

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• When I write a book I write the best that I can and so much of that for me is following the book's demands, the subject's requirements - I love books, I always have. They have always been one of the places where I have felt very happy in the world. When I was younger, I loved to read genre fiction - I loved the magic-carpet ride of story! Now I need other things - I need the beautiful particular and strange language and form which brings a writer's book to life in me and speaks to my intellect, and, dare I say it, to my soul.

  Micheline Aharonian Marcom

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Music is so incredible, the most healing force in the world along with love of course which all things are created and essentially are. I want to make films that can equal the energy experience of music, the experience of a record that sends your soul to heaven; a film can do this. I've seen films get in this area. Hopefully I've made some; I don't know but I want to make them like this, with the power of musical energy,that's one of my soul-goals for I am in awe of this love called music which I participate in everyday.

  Giuseppe Andrews

  Healing, Goal, Heaven

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is to have the images revisited. I want it to be something that also enhances the soul. I want the moment of pleasure to produce an attachment.

  Elia Suleiman

  Attachment, Ideas, Want

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• Baby Boomers are now living longer and want to stay vibrant and gorgeous for as long as possible. I've identified a need for women to learn the basics of a healthy, holistic, daily regimen, which will bring a healthy glow to their skin. It's all about allowing our true self to shine, both literally through our skin and metaphorically through our soul.

  Sophie Heyman Uliano

  Baby, Self, Long

  "Keeping Up With the Gorgeously Green Sophie Uliano". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If you wear clothing, and put out trash you are using up resources that others also need BUT I can pay attention and I can do better. That I know for sure about me, my soul needs to try or I can't lay my head down on my pillow at night and even hope to sleep.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Sleep, Night, Trying

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• I'd like to be remembered for being a good-hearted soul that left this planet better than I found it.

  Alison Eastwood

  Found, Planets, Good Hearted

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• I do what I do because there's nothing else for me to do. This is what I'm supposed to be doing. It is in my soul to spread love and laughter. Even if I wasn't an actress or a comedian, I would be spreading love and laughter [with] whatever I did.

  Kim Coles

  Laughter, Comedian, Spreading Love

  Interview with Reina Shay Broussard, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Everyone came here to do something magnificent. What is important is that you live your life to your fullest potential. That's how you open your gifts and share them with the world. You should only be doing that thing that lights up your soul.

  Kim Coles

  Light, Live Your Life, Important

  Interview with Reina Shay Broussard, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You should only be doing the thing that makes you happy. Not just surface happy. That content, all-is-well-with-my-soul happy. It's the thing you would do for free, and if you do it, you actually become hugely successful and make a lot of money, because the universe is going to send you the resources.

  Kim Coles

  Successful, Make You Happy, Resources

  Interview with Reina Shay Broussard, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I had never done any sort of yoga before, and this epiphany was a little more esoteric. I walked into the yoga room and there was a voice from my soul that said out loud, This is it! I just knew. I just knew in that moment - I couldn't even straighten my legs. I couldn't sit cross-legged on the floor. I couldn't put my legs up the wall in the most gentle, restorative yoga pose, and yet, I knew.

  Brad Willis

  Wall, Yoga, Voice

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I feel like my soul yearns to experience something new at all times. That may be an encounter with a new place or persons or a song that plays and urges me to dance in a different way. I come alive when there is a chance to learn or do something different.

  Dash Mihok

  Song, Play, May

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• However, there probably is a slight connection between the high-wire, super sensitivity, open to everything and too much, and slightly fragile soul of the artist and the need to self-medicate, which can lead to bad trouble either in drugs, or alcohol. So it's not that there's no connection, it's just that we can't make too much of it because it isn't the addiction that's the issue, it's the fragility of some people who do artistic work, who end up in rehab somewhere or other.

  Anne Roiphe

  Artist, Self, Issues

  "Anne Roiphe’s Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory". Interview with Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 15, 2011.

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• The first time I ever thought about doing a film seriously, I was in London. I was about 17 years old. I was just standing in the street, a bit dazzled by an Antonioni bus wipe, which by the way are inherent in London, and I imagined a film set in London starting out with the riff from The Yardbird's "Heart Full of Soul", and now, how ever many years later, I've done it.

  William Monahan

  Heart, Years, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• When the President picks someone who is his ideological soul mate, that's his right, in my reading of "advise and consent." I do think, though, the more you get up the ladder, when someone is no longer accountable to the President, and more importantly, will stay in office after the President, the standard gets tougher and tougher.

  Russ Feingold

  Reading, Thinking, Office

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. April 30, 2002.

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