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"The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?"
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"The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens."

"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."

"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye."

"The most beautiful rainbow is the one inside your soul."

"Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation."

"Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn or move it. The soul alone turns and moves itself, making all externals presented to it cohere with the judgements it thinks worthy of itself."
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"Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day."

"There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return."

"The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside."

"In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us."

"The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being."

"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon."

"Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life."

"Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates."

"The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned."
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