#souls

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#souls #soul

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove. ↗

— Jose Marti

#build #cast #centuries #down #everything

Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness. ↗

— Bill McCartney

#create #dreams #greatness #magic #men

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#book #business #few #god #hands

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls. ↗

— William Pennington

#father #god #lift #lord #our

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect. ↗

— William Petty

#better #effect #feed #more #souls

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#break #community #did #domestic #end

There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#i #myself #places #say #souls

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. ↗

— Henry Miller

#develop #forget #interest #interesting #interesting people

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#every #instance #many #moment #must