„Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.“

— Marcus Aurelius

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„Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.“
— Walt Whitman
„Our instinct uses "more" and "less" in application to man, of the presence of the soul, and not of its absence; the brave man is greater than the coward; the true, the benevolent, the wise, is more a man, and not less, than the fool and knave.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield“
— W.B. Yeats
„I've fought with men and gods, I've weighed them well and foundthe sea more firm than earth, the air more firm than sea,and man's impalpable soul still yet more firm than air!“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe.It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche