Quotes with soul-wasting

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  • Bell Hooks People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Alice James Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Martin Luther King Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • John Keats Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Bell Hooks Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • John Adams Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Samuel Johnson Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anne Sexton Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
    Anne Sexton
    American poet (1928 - 1974)
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • Alfred Rosenberg Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • Leonard Cohen Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • John Donne Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Joyce Cary Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • Karl Marx Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Gaston Bachelard Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isn't the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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