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“He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into the mirror and so does not bother to put himself in order, since he can be dirty without knowing it. The person who meditates and turns his thoughts to God who is the mirror of the soul, seeks to know his defects and tries to correct them, moderates himself in his impulses and puts his conscience in order.”

Knows Trying Looks Persons Doe Soul Order Turns Knowing Conscience Mirrors Saint Impulse Bother Dirty Defects Moderates

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena.”

World Soul Eye Artist Universal Rhythm Impulse His Eyes Sensations Perpetual Submit Communion Day To Day Centre Scrutinize Fortuitous

Book:Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon

Source: Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon

“We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.”

Men Heart Soul Sin Knowing Elements Majors Concern Intention Primaries Impulse Purity Ruling

Book:Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

Source: Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

“Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man Whose nature multitudinously mixed-- Each ardent impulse grappling with a thought-- Resists all easy gladness, all content Save mystic rapture, where the questioning soul Flooded with consciousness of good that is Finds life one bounteous answer.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulse of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavour is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life.”

“The impulse to think, to philosophize and spin beauty and brilliance out of mind and soul, is somehow the offspring of resistance of an effort to overcome an apparently insurmountable obstacle. Hence cultural creativeness is more likely to flourish in an atmosphere of restriction, of an imposed pattern of thought and behavior, than in one of total freedom.”

Thinking Mind Soul Effort Behavior Overcoming Patterns Obstacles Resistance Impulse Atmosphere Restriction Brilliance Offspring Insurmountable Creativeness

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.”

Men Soul Prayer Remains Impulse Native

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer.”

Art Soul Natural Emotion Study Poet Faults Impulse Melody Sincerity Composer Irresistible

Book:Poets of America

Source: Poets of America

“Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.”

Men Giving Soul Self Perfect Forever Delight Surrender Impulse Overwhelming Lives Of Others Self-denial

Book:Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons

Source: Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons