Human Soul Quotes - Page 16

• Give yourself the gift of time in coming to answers for your life...It takes time, and a lot of introspection and soul-searching, to get clear about what you really want to manifest in your life.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Giving, Soul, Answers

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• I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.

  John Derbyshire

  Loneliness, Compassion, Soul

  "The Guillotining of John Derbyshire". Interview with Alex Kurtagic, www.amren.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Writers are engineers of human souls.

  Yury Olesha

  Soul, Humans, Engineers

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• History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Flames, Soul, Evolution

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 57), 1986.

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• But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul.

  Rob Brezsny

  Cancer, News Stories, Tv Shows

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.61, Frog Books

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• The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Funny Marriage, Forever, Soul

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• There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate.

  David O. McKay

  Happiness, Attitude, Soul

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• Joy is the state of the human soul who is not identified with the personality. Happiness is a state of the soul who is identified with the personality and enjoys the life in the personality.

  Torkom Saraydarian

  Happiness, Laughter, Personality

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• When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet, you are perplexed what to do. The human soul is difficult to interfere with. You hesitate how far you should go.

  Charles Loring Brace

  Children, Choices, Soul

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• Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.

  Karl Ludwig von Knebel

  Courage, Soul, Physicians

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• I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul

  George Crumb

  Believe, Mirrors, Soul

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• Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Men, Soul, Independence

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• The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

  Ralph Peters

  Relationship, Powerful, Technology

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• Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

  Antonio Banderas

  Honesty, Thinking, Careers

  "Actor Antonio Banderas". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 18, 2011.

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• There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hate, Hatred, Soul

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.273

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• Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Art, Sadness, Wings

  Theodore Dreiser (1920). “Hey Rub-a-dub-dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life”

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• Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

  Annette Bening

  Soul, Acting, Fame

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

  John Ruskin

  Education, School, Soul

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.216

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• The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

  John Ruskin

  Women, Soul, Doe

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.91, University of Virginia Press

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• Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

  George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

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• There are depths to the human soul that should not be fathomed.

  Ann Rinaldi

  Soul, Depth, Should

  Ann Rinaldi (2002). “The Staircase”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Men, Sea

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. 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 of 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.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Nature, Writing, Butterfly

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.91, Canongate Books

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• The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

  Frances Harper

  Two, Perfect, Soul

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.109, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Soul, Mind

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.40, Beacon Press

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