#souls

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls. ↗

— Katharine Lee Bates

#chains #hour #souls #thy #time

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#american #asunder #being #body #dark

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#books #chiefly #enjoy #give #great

One of the nicest things you can do is to speak kind words about someone behind his or her back. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#backstabbing #kindness #love #nice #nice-people

If we want to grow, the way to break a pattern of negativity is to face anything negative with love. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#grow #honor #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #joy

Conscious humility is the decision to live from our hearts. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#conscious-humility #honor #humble #inspiration #inspirational-quotes

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

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. ↗

— Thomas Guthrie

#gives #grace #luster #nature #rough

Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed. ↗

— Alberta Hunter

#because #been #blues #disturbed #does