“I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?”
Douglas MacArthur
“Beauty is defined by the image of your soul. Taint your soul...Taint your beauty.”
Dedrick D. L. Pitter
“Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
“The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.”
Larry Dossey
“We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven.”
Pope Paul VI
“Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.”
Margaret Fuller
“When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective”
Arundhati Roy