“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
Emily Dickinson
“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined ... to strengthen each other ... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
George Eliot
“I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.”
Arnold Bennett
“Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
Anatole France
“Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.”
Virginia Woolf
“He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.”
Christopher Love