„Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.“

— Walt Whitman

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„Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…“
— Walt Whitman
„This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.... The poet shall not spend his time in unneeded work. He shall know that the ground is always ready ploughed and manured.... others may not know it but he shall. He shall go directly to the creation. His trust shall master the trust of everything he touches.... and shall master all attachment.“
— Walt Whitman
„Your soul doesn't care what you do for a living - and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you are being while you are doing whatever you are doing.“
— Neale Donald Walsch
„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
„Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„Your pride has been too much for the pride of your admirers; they were numerous and high-spirited, but they have all run away, overpowered by your superior force of character; not one of them remains. And I want you to understand the reason why you have been too much for them. You think that you have no need of them or of any other man, for you have great possessions and lack nothing, beginning with the body, and ending with the soul.“
— Platón
„You could tell your soul mate by the light in their eyes, and since the time began, that has been how people have recognized their true love.“
— Paulo Coelho