„Call the world if you please “The vale of soul-making.”“

— John Keats

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„What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.“
— Hermann Hesse
„Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?“
— John Keats
„But, if it will help ease your irritated souls, please know, dearly departed, that you have ruined our lives.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„And that is just the point… how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?“
— Mary Oliver
„I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.“
— Paulo Coelho
„…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.“
— Louisa May Alcott