How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver. – Oscar Wilde
The souls impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments. – Epictetus
“Great thoughts come from the heart,” not the mind. To the soul alone, therefore, belong the thoughts that reunite, to the mind those that divide. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), Philosophy. First Section: Pure Philosophy. C
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. – Orison Swett Marden