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"The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten."
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"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."
"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul."
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"Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable."
"The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?"
"When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition."
"Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough."
"The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?"
"I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate."
"Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here."
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