Quotes with soul-searching

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  • Barbra Streisand I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Beth Ditto I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Aretha Franklin If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.
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  • Hannah More If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Richard Lovelace If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
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  • Seneca If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bruce Springsteen If the angels are unkind or the season is dark
    Or if in the end
    Love just falls apart
    Well then here's to our destruction
    Baby let me be your soul driver.
    Human Touch (1992) Soul Driver
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Ben Gibbard If there's no one beside you
    When your soul embarks
    Then I'll follow you into the dark
    Plans I Will Follow You Into The Dark
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Charlotte Brontë If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • St. John of the Cross If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you deny your appetite for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding what is certain in them.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • Horace Mann Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Cal Thomas In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Thomas Carlyle In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
    On Heroes 5
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Jami In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.
    Jami
    Arabic Sufi poet, scholar and writer
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  • John F. Kennedy In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In Old Havana, the names of the streets before the revolution provided a glimpse into the city's state of mind. You might have known someone who lived on the corner of Soul and Bitterness, Solitude and Hope, or Light and Avocado.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bell Hooks Indeed much of the literature written about black folks in the post-civil rights era emphasized the need for jobs. Material advancement was deemed the pressing agenda. Mental health concerns were not a high priority. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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