Quotes with soul-searching

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  • Walt Whitman Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Billy Bob Thornton When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.
    Billy Bob Thornton
    American actor, writer, and musician (1955 - )
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  • Gerard De Nerval When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
    Gerard De Nerval
    French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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  • Thomas Carlyle When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Camille Pissarro When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Gary Zukav When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.
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  • Jean Shinoda Bolen When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
    Jean Shinoda Bolen
    American psychiatrist (1936 - )
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  • René Descartes Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • Alice Walker Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Eugene V. Debs While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Bartholomew Dowling Who dreads to the dust returning?
    Who shrinks from the sable shore,
    Where the high and haughty yearning
    Of the soul can sting no more?
    The Revel: Time of the Famine and Plague in India, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
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  • Francis Bacon Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Anne Frank Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • William James Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Albert Pike Will is the dynamic soul-force.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Anzia Yezierska Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut - a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • John Irving Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Samuel Ullman Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
    Samuel Ullman
    American businessman, poet and humanitarian (1840 - 1924)
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