"The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul."

Soul, Body, Burden, Weight

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"The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul."

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"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"The divinity of the soul; life, light and love."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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

George Eliot, British Author

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"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"We cannot fight new wars with old weapons."

Fight

"All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts."

Purpose

"If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order."

Nature

"Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions."

Life

"The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted."

Control

"It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor."

God

"If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free."

Experience

"Though the names karma yoga and sannyasa are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same."

Truth

"It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free."

Life

"We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps."

Experience