#soul

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#being #cover #covering #depths #forty

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ↗

— Alfred Einstein

#animal #being #between #body #dominance

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl? ↗

— Anne Frank

#girl #much #soul #think #went

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was. ↗

— Aberjhani

#faith #famous-poets #famous-quotes #freedom #grace

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul. ↗

— Ava Gardner

#director #give #heart #him #i

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#hills #inhabit #life #nation #people

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love. ↗

— Alex Grey

#ask #bare #beings #call #celebrating

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. ↗

— Albert Camus

#dies #goes #life #rotten #soulless

If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#citizens #clean #clear #good #good citizens

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#choice #control #created #every #god