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- Nov 07, 2020
Soul Quotes
Some lines just reach further than others.
Several of these treat hardship as necessary soul growth rather than something to avoid entirely. For related reflection on the heart's role, see our Heart quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable?
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had just come off my third consecutive failed television series. I had sworn off doing TV for a while. I was going to go to New York, sublet an apartment, and find my soul again. Before I got on the plane, my agent sent me the script for 'Psych.' I read it on the plane and realised it had a lot of potential.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted somebody who had a heart and a soul, because Joe Carroll is soulless. There was nothing in there. He was a vacuum of a man.
- Black Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joe Carroll had a certain black comedy to him. But I think it's lovely playing a man who, in his heart and soul, is a gentle man. And he's wounded and complicated.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.
- Different Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loss means losing what was we want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Beatles were great, but Beethoven and Mozart were phenomenal. Both will be remembered for centuries, but it will always be clear which were most in touch with the soul of humanity.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans and fMRIs know they aren't seeing the soul in there.
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- Nov 07, 2020