#my soul

America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#america #bosom #country #german #heart

O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul. ↗

— Anne Boleyn

#god #i #lord #me #mercy

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#depth #height #i #i love #love

In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#clouds #cloudy #i #light #london

My soul is not for sale. ↗

— Caryl Chessman

#sale #soul

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul. ↗

— Jim Valvano

#cancer #cannot #heart #mind #my soul

I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#almost #am #degree #discreet #i

The Lord receive my soul, and have mercy on me, and bless this kingdom with peace and charity, that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them. ↗

— William Laud

#bless #blood #charity #christian #kingdom

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#astounding #books #craft #craftsmanship #faulkner

I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts - protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics, if not in my soul. The true me, my spiritual core, slipped further and further from reach. ↗

— James McGreevey

#around #core #further #gave #i