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Quotes About Soul

I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in the depth of my soul.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
So, in five seconds, he was born, he lived and he died. After thirty years of existence and six months of torture, Gully Foyle, the stereotype Common Man was no more. The key turned in the lock of his soul and the door was opened. What emerged expunged the Common Man for ever.
~ Alfred Bester
When God measures a person, He puts the tape around the heart, not around the head. AUTHOR UNKNOWN
~ Alice Gray
Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.
~ Alice Hoffman
What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map of an individual's soul.
~ Alice Hoffman
I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.
~ Alice Hoffman
He realized how little he knew of this world, but he knew this: If you could love someone, you possessed a soul.
~ Alice Hoffman
What was a demon but a lost soul, one that had been forced to use his skills to survive.
~ Alice Hoffman
Things without all remedy should be without regard. But what you can cure, do so willingly. What ails the human body and soul may be difficult to diagnose, but just as often there is a simple resolution. Black pepper for aching muscles, linden root and yarrow for high blood pressure, feverfew for migraines, ginger for motion sickness, watercress to ease labored breathing, vervain to quiet the pangs of unrequited love.
~ Alice Hoffman
I signaled for him to lean down, and he did so. I then did the second most terrible thing a mother could do, in some ways worse than burying her beneath the stones. I breathed my daughter's last breath into his mouth. I gave her to him so that her spirit would belong to him and he could carry her with him, so that he could still be a man with a soul, even though he had lost everything else.
~ Alice Hoffman
A familiar is such a creature, an animal or bird that sees inside to the very soul of its human companion, and knows what others might not. What fears there might be, and what joys, for it shares the emotions of its human partner.
~ Alice Hoffman
What do you have there?" he asked, always interested to discover what a person was reading, for he believed it was possible to see inside a person's soul once you knew which books mattered to them.
~ Alice Hoffman
Heart, soul, treasure, rain, sister, memory, knowledge, hope, will.
~ Alice Hoffman
In his writings, Dr. Burke-Owens proposed a theory of personality that placed nature over nurture, stating there was no way to change a child's core personality. Not only was the brain hardwired, he proposed, but the soul was as well. There was no way to escape one's personal genetics, despite a healthy environment, and this did not bode well for Frances and Bridget and Vincent.
~ Alice Hoffman
Where was her soul? Was it up above her in a tree, perched there like a goblin?
~ Alice Hoffman
She feels her love inside her as if it were as tangible as blood and bones. They'll
~ Alice Hoffman
He has no idea that being in love is bullshit. It's knowing someone down to their soul that matters. That's what love is. It's difficult and it's real and it doesn't change.
~ Alice Hoffman
With his words, he could approach the soul where it resided, a glory to God, for words were what the Almighty first created, after the silence of the world, and they were Eleazar ben Ya'ir's gift as well.
~ Alice Hoffman
Loneliness can drive even the most alienated person to attempt to make cotact with another soul, even when it's via a soullness medium.
~ Alice Hoffman
her soul was in her mouth, ready to escape as a puff of air
~ Alice Hoffman
He couldn't help but wonder if Moses Levy had experienced this same heat, if true images burned their maker. He wondered, too, if the hermit at that riverside was right, if there wasn't some element of capturing a soul in each photograph, if he wasn't responsible for those whose images he caught.
~ Alice Hoffman
never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own.
~ Alice Hoffman
She had a solemn expression as she asked if, in his opinion as a doctor, he had come to the conclusion that all living things had souls. ...... If a soul was formed by meaning and purpose, did not every blade of grass have a soul, for each had a purpose.
~ Alice Hoffman
Love was contagious, it passed from soul to soul, it woke a person up and shook her even when she wanted to be left alone.
~ Alice Hoffman