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* When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy. When action come from another section, the feeling disappears.

** [[Jalal ad-Din Rumi]]

* You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

** [[Buddhism]]

* A blow to the head will confuse a man, whereas a blow to the foot has no such effect: this cannot be the result of an immaterial soul.

** [[w:Heraclitus|Heraclitus]] c. 500 BCE

* Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

** [[Henry David Thoreau]]

* How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

** [[Oscar Wilde]]

* I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of [[space]] and [[time]].

** [[Carl Jung]]

* Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

** [[Timothy Leary]]

* One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.

** [[Lord Byron]]

* 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]]

* You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.

** Martha Graham

* One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.

** [[Vincent Van Gogh]]

* One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it? They also believed the world was flat.

** [[Mark Twain]]

* Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

** [[Albert Einstein]]

* The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.

** [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]]

* The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

** [[Ferdinand Foch]]

* Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

** Geoffrey Fisher

* When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

** Octave Mirbeau

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