#soul

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#dry #i #my soul #soul #up

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#emotion #inability #restrain #retain #self

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul. ↗

— William Ames

#appropriately #body #capable #first #god

Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control! ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#gear #got #high #like #out

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul. ↗

— Aristotle

#change #count #exist #i #impossible

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#believe #did #rational #souls #would

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#his #man #more #nowhere #own

Tears are the summer showers to the soul. ↗

— Alfred Austin

#soul #summer #tears

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#endeavor #follies #god #him #like

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. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#form #identifying #important #important step #latter