"A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there."

Soul, Heart, Being

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"A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there."

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"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"

Horace, Roman Poet

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"Sacredness is spirituality."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The beauty of your soul depends on your thoughts more than what is going on around you."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The spark of light in the soul is beginning of self awareness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

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"Brevity is the soul of wit."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you."

God

"What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love."

Love

"If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself."

God

"Words derive their power from the original word."

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"One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God."

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"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk."

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"The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge."

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