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Quotes About Soul

We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.
~ Cecelia Ahern
I knew that the Name was still with him, animating his soul, even as his body failed.
~ Geraldine Brooks
But to believe, and not to act, or to act in a way that every fiber of your soul held was wrong- how can you not see? That is what would have been reprehensible
~ Geraldine Brooks
A canoe paddle is animate, because it causes something else to move. Even a humble onion has, in their view, a soul, since it causes action—pulling tears from the eyes.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Still, he could see how a man like Scott might get confused at a place like the Meadows. Life looked well enough there. It was what you couldn't see that rubbed your soul raw.
~ Geraldine Brooks
The issue regarding the soul's relation to the state is posed with great force by Plato but also by More, not only in his fictional Utopia but also in later life when the issue would arise in a dramatically personal way because he found that neither laws nor rhetorical speech could save him from execution for a silence that he insisted was required by his soul.6
~ Gerard B. Wegemer
I have never felt any rest in sleep. For a few seconds I am numbed, then a new life begins, freed from the conditions of time and space, and doubtless similar to that state which awaits us after death. Who knows if there is not some link between those two existences and if it is not possible for the soul to unite them now?
~ Gerard de Nerval
Sleep occupies a third of our life. It is the consolation to the woes of our days or the woe of their pleasures; but I have never found that sleep was a rest. After a swoon of a few minutes a new life begins, freed from conditions of time and space, and doubtless like the life which awaits us after death. Who knows whether there does not exist a link between these two existences, and whether it is not possible for the soul now to bind them together?
~ Gerard de Nerval
Wie weet, wordt mijn Ziel steeds gezonder, of misschien ook niet - ik heb van die dingen erg weinig verstand - maar in ieder geval trekt hij zich tegenwoordig van heel wat zaken geen bal meer aan.
~ Gerard Reve
On scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss] [Carl Friedrich] Gauss told his friend Rudolf Wagner, a professor of biology at Gottingen University, that he did not believe in the Bible but that he had meditated a great deal on the future of the human soul and speculated on the possibility of the soul being reincarnated on another planet. Evidently, Gauss was a Deist with a good deal of skepticism concerning religion.
~ Gerhard Falk
Studerer man lenge nok de bibelske lignelser, lukkes sjelen gradvis inne i vanviddets labyrint.
~ Gert Nygårdshaug
She filled herself entirely with the molten dark.
~ Gertrud Kolmar
Imprint thyself more deeply upon me, thou image of my King, thou, not I, shalt dwell in my soul, in my heart, in my countenance, on my lips, thou, not I, so long as I live, only thou!
~ Gertrud von Le Fort
It was for me a constant source of hope and happiness to be able to feel that I could in a way shield Our Lord from the hostility which she really meant for Him, and, as it were, take upon myself the heavy cross which He had to bear on account of this soul; and I hoped, too, that I might thereby, perhaps, be helping towards the salvation of that soul itself.
~ Gertrud von Le Fort
For nothing on earth so dulls the soul, or inflicts on it such speedy and sure harm, as when it sees and learns that all the things that ought to be expressed only on bended knee and with the full surrender of oneself, are also being continually expressed without this surrender, and without this bending of the knee.
~ Gertrud von Le Fort
True obedience requires greatness and inward freedom of soul.
~ Gertrud von Le Fort
The path to enlightenment, to find out who you truly are, has to be taken alone.
~ Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla
ANIMA Ma dimmi, eccellenza e infelicità straordinaria sono sostanzialmente una cosa stessa? […] NATURA Nelle anime degli uomini […] si può dire che l'una e l'altra cosa sieno quasi il medesimo: perché l'eccellenza delle anime importa maggiore intensione della loro vita; la qual cosa importa maggior sentimento dell'infelicità propria; che è come se io dicessi maggiore infelicità. ( Dialogo della Natura e di un'Anima )
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Braveggia, urla! T'affretta a palesarmi il fondo dell'alma ria!'' ''Shout, braggart! What a rush you're in to show me the last dregs of your vile soul!
~ Giacomo Puccini
First come the wild and solitary, then those tied to a few in faithful friendship, next those who side with the manyto attain civil ends, and finally, in pursuit of particular ends of utilityor pleasure, the whollydissolute , who, amidst the great multitude of bodies, return to the first solitude of the soul.
~ Giambattista Vico
Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Words are important for the mind, but the notes are for the soul.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Stand as far away from me as you can And ask me why Hang on to your rosary beads Close your eyes to watch me die You keep saying kick it, quit it, kick it, quit it God, but did you ever try To turn your sick soul inside out So that the world So that the world Can watch you die
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Yea ! by your works are ye justified--toil unrelieved ; Manifold labours, co-ordinate each to the sending achieved ; Discipline, not of the feet but the soul, unremitting, unfeigned ; Tortures unholy by flame and by maiming, known, faced, and disdained ; Courage that suns Only foolhardiness ; even by these, are ye worthy of your guns.
~ Gilbert Frankau