Best Own Soul Thoughts
216 Own Soul quotes by 157 unique authors
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because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.
— Oscar Wilde
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Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
— Thomas Moore
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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly…
— Roald Dahl
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The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours…
— Thomas Hardy
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We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end…
— Paulo Coelho
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When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root…
— Rumi
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Rain Soft rain, summer rain Whispers from bushes, whispers from trees. Oh, how lovely and full of blessing To dream and be satisfied. I was…
— Hermann Hesse
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There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One…
— Carl Jung
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The more I think about myself, the more I'm persuaded that, as a person, I really don't exist. That is one of the reasons why…
— Christopher Isherwood
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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most…
— Anne Rice
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The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the…
— Oscar Wilde
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Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall…
— Walt Whitman
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There's nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I…
— Cassandra Clare
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There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as…
— Stefan Zweig
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Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.
— Paulo Coelho
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.
— Vachel Lindsay
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In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience -…
— John F. Kennedy
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Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on…
— Robert Southey
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But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his…
— John B. S. Haldane
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Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty…
— Virginia Woolf
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I try to give each performance my own soul, to bring a truth to my character. Hopefully, when I bring that much truth to a…
— Jurnee Smollett
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