#soul

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter? ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#give #great #home #leaves #life

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#already #call #i #intrusion #leading

Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#care #courts #disputes #does #encouraging

After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration. ↗

— Elvis Stojko

#direction #done #find #going #inspiration

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing. ↗

— Marie Carmichael Stopes

#beauty #credit #doing #own #sixteen

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. ↗

— Marie Stopes

#beauty #credit #doing #own #sixteen

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors. ↗

— James Hillman

#forget #own #soul

After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely. ↗