“Yet, I didn’t understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid t…”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“My imagination gave me a dual life: I lived in my body, and at the same time lived a life no one could see.”— Andre Dubus, amazon.com
“I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?”— Laurie Halse Anderson, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.”— Charles Bukowski, goodreads.com
“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Sometimes, the truth comes out in ways you wish it didn’t; all you can do is hope that someday you will be forgiven, that the blemish will be erased from the permanent record known as your soul.”— Ted Michael, amazon.com
“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”— Stella Adler, amazon.com
“You told me once that a soul isn’t something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love. And you did that with more dedication than most, that work of building a soul-not for your own benefit but for the benefit of those that knew you.”— Chad Harbach, amazon.com
“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes; for those who love with heart and soul there is no separation.”— Rumi, twitter.com
“Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.”— Anne Sexton, goodreads.com
“It’s like she had a soul that was much too big for her; it filled her to the brim till there was no more space, so it flowed out through her eyes.”— Nick Lake, amazon.com
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”— E. E Cummings, goodreads.com
“Something in my soul was rising, rising, ceaselessly, painfully, and refused to be still.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything. Maybe we’re from the same star.”— Emery Allen, amazon.com