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Peace in the heart is the natural state of the soul.

— Buddha

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.

— Emily Dickinson

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

— Alexander Pope

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

— Rumi

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

— Emily Dickinson

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.

— Rumi

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

— Aristotle

There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.

— Rumi

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

— Khalil Gibran

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

— Cicero

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

— Virginia Woolf

When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep.

— Khalil Gibran

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

— Aristotle

Nature always wears the colours of the spirit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

— Heraclitus

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

— Buddha

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

— Marcus Aurelius

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination.

— Plato

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

— C. S. Lewis

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

— Virginia Woolf

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.

— Rumi

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

— Walt Whitman

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