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Quotes about soul
My God, a whole moment of happiness! Is that too little for the whole of a man's life?
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! … God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
The one essential condition of human existence is that man should always be able to bow down before something infinitely great.
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
Some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man.
Judge the Russian people not by the abominations they so often commit, but by the great and holy things for which, even in their abomination, they constantly yearn.
I didn't kill a human being, I killed a principle!
Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
If it were mathematically proved to you that the truth excludes Christ, you'd prefer to stick to Christ rather than to the truth.
We are each responsible to all for all.
The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
The soul is healed by being with children.
Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in spring. I love the blue sky.
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea.
Circulating, but not genuine
Look at you comforting others with the words you wish someone had said to you.
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!
I was burning, while you came blaming me for the smell of ashes.
The most terrifying freedom is discovering that even your suffering is your own fault.