Human Soul Quotes - Page 7

• If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

  Elif Safak

  Wall, Motivation, Inspiration

  "The politics of fiction". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Pain, Struggle, Men

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.5, Regnery Publishing

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• Of all the creatures that man kills for his amusement there is only one that he kills out of hatred—other men. Man hates nothing as much as himself. That is why war is called the leprosy of the human soul.

  Halldór Laxness

  Hate, War, Men

  Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

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• Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of matter to the highest existence on earth, the human soul. The whole universe is in fact the result of this struggle for freedom.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Men, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.64, Advaita Ashrama

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• Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration, the undefinable interest of a story, and above all, something forbidden, to stimulate the contumacious appetite.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Soul, Lust, Secret

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2016). “Uncle Silas: Horror Collections”, p.15, 谷月社

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• Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every human soul. . . And the little helpless buzzings of honest, liberal, kindly people, aren't they like the thin little noise flies make when they're caught?

  John Dos Passos

  Lying, Wings, People

  John Dos Passos (1922). “One Man's Initiation--1917”

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• The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.

  Dallas Willard

  Soul, Kingdoms, Ecology

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• Finally, if life happened by chance on this earth and evolved upward, then it could seemingly happen elsewhere in the universe. But if, as we believe, human life resulted from a purposeful act of God, and if sin is inevitable for such beings, and if the human soul is the prize for which Satan and God do battle, then it hardly makes sense to have this same process repeated on countless other planets throughout the cosmos.

  Dave Hunt

  Believe, Soul, Battle

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• Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe.

  Paul Gauguin

  Flower, Soul, World

  Paul Gauguin (1920). “Noa Noa”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Self, Giving, Soul

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the knowledge I have developed there must lie the answers to that riddle, to that enigma, to that problem - the human soul - for under my hands and others, was seen the best in man rehabilitated. I discovered that a human being is not his body and demonstrated that through Scientology an individual can attain certainty of his identity apart from that of the body. We cannot deal in the realm of the human soul and ignore the fact.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Lying, Men, Hands

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• When you are aware that you are the force that is Life, anything is possible. Miracles happen all the time, because those miracles are performed by the heart. The heart is in direct communion with the human soul, and when the heart speaks, even with the resistance of the head, something inside you changes; your heart opens another heart, and true love is possible.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Heart, Love Is

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• The average American child sees 20,000 murders in TV before reaching age 18. This is considered normal. Every community has video rental stores filled with multimillion-dollar films that depict people doing terrible things to each other. If you read newspapers, you have every right to believe that Bad Nasty Things compose 90 percent of the human experience. 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

  Life, Children, Believe

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• Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.

  Al-Ghazali

  Soul, Soil, Humans

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• The temple is concerned with things of immortality. It is a bridge between this life and the next. All of the ordinances that take place in the house of the Lord are expressions of our belief in the immortality of the human soul.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Expression, Bridges, House

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• The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Heart, Soul, Foundation

  Ludwig Van Beethoven (2004). “Beethoven: The Man and the Artist”, p.103, 1st World Publishing

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• There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Spiritual, Soul, Life Without Music

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• Writers are the engineers of human souls.

  Joseph Stalin

  Writing, Soul, Humans

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• Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives and interpretation, you're dealing with the reality inside another person's head and heart. You're listening to understand. You're focused on receiving the deep communication of another human soul.

  Stephen Covey

  Powerful, Communication, Heart

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.301, Mango Media Inc.

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• Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human soul, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman.

  George Berkeley

  Sorry, Thinking, Soul

  George Berkeley, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (Earl of) (1897). “The works of George Berkeley, D.D., bishop of Cloyne”

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• Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land.

  Tom Robbins

  Land, Joy, Soul

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.22, Bantam

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• There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.

  George Lillo

  Passion, Soul, Humans

  'The Fatal Curiosity' (1736) act 1, sc. 2

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• Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Dance, Dancing, Soul

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• It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.

  St. Jerome

  Love, Soul, Mind

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• Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Soul

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