"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."

Soul, Judgment, Control, Power

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"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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"The Soul is the voice of the body's interests."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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George Eliot, British 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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"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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George Santayana, American Philosopher

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Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"She had something more than material value ~ she had a soul, no money could buy."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

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"For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul."

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"Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it."

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"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."

Will

"You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and that after dissolution are equally infinite."

Perspective

"Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the best, and then reflect on how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them."

Gratitude

"When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it."

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"The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues."

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"Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up: The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion."

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"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."

Community

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

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"Poverty is the mother of crime."

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