Saint Augustine Quotes, Soul Quotes, Unhappy Quotes

I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.

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Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.

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If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.

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If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.

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Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

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the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.

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The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.

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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

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My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.

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Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

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The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

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Writing is the geometry of the soul.

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One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

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No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul

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Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

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And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.

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There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

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RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.

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Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

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There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

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