The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe r... ELIZABETH GILBERT There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wo... CHARLES KINGSLEY There is no need for us all to be alike and think the same way, neither do we need a common enemy to... ANTHON ST. MAARTEN Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through t... SHANNON L. ALDER The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness was an opportunity for a lost and selfis... DEAN KOONTZ We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of opt... ALBERT EINSTEIN There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know abou... CHARLES DURNING All of us, at some time or other, need help. Whether we’re giving or receiving help, each one of u... FRED ROGERS I believe each of us is a pilgrim in our own way; we are all lost souls, trying to find our way home... SETH ADAM SMITH Emotions, or feelings, have a function. They tell us something. They are a signal....Anger tells us ... JOHN TOWNSEND The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish... DEAN KOONTZ Our feelings of separation from God will diminish as we become more childlike before Him. That is no... HENRY B. EYRING We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by the... US DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us. OSWALD CHAMBERS Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. WILLIAM HAZLITT All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require th... JAMES LECESNE I think inside of us we all have this need to express feelings. Pet people, they use their pets. STEVE MACIONTEK We learn that our spirit is not apart from us; it is a part of us. We gain awareness of the exact na... NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Realizing that our actions, feelings and behavior are the result of our own images and beliefs gives... MAXWELL MALTZ Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs give... MAXWELL MALTZ If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us ... OLIVER SACKS We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and famil... REGINA BRETT It gets us something in the treasury. And it gives the students a place to come and learn. (Learning... JEANNE BOARD If each and one of us understands the essence of human values, we will be able to sustain our civili... SAAIF ALAM The good inside of all of us is wrapped in a layer of apathy, and we forget how much potential we ha... SHARI ARISON We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innoc... G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- fr... CHARLES KINGSLEY There is an end waiting for all of us; an end waiting to show us records of our journey. Mind the en... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposi... HOWARD BARKER We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. JANE AUSTEN Of course you are American,' he said, and waived his hand, like waving away the sentiment. 'What oth... TONY D'SOUZA It is the antagonist that we meet throughout life that aid us humans to our ultimate inner and outer... DC ALLEN This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, ... DEAN KOONTZ Our everyday cares, making a living, the crazy rat race of life, often make us forget the value of a... SHARI ARISON This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe r... ELIZABETH GILBERT Each and every one of [the freshman] brings something to the field, and everyone backs each other up... BROOKE JOHNSON A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a
part limited in time and space. H... UNKNOWN A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He ex... ALBERT EINSTEIN A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He ex... ALBERT EINSTEIN Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, fe... VICKTOR ALEXANDER We have this window of opportunity; we have a chance to make something real happen. Something possib... MICHELLE OBAMA We've got four guys who have played a lot of snaps inside for us. We really feel good about our numb... BARRY NORTON There are many voices in the world. The social environment will try to mould us in the image and lik... DRAGOS BRATASANU When we bend and stretch, reach for the stars, we may find that the stars we are
reaching for exist ... GAIL PURSELL ELLIOTT Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the o... RAINER MARIA RILKE Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to ... JOHN GROGAN Each one of us has some kind of vocation. We are all called by God to share in His life and in His K... THOMAS MERTON The hour of the waning of love has beset us,And weary and worn are our sad souls now;Let us part, er... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that... , PUBLIC PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: HARRY S. TRUMAN - 1951 U.S. GOV. 1966 PP548-549 Stories nurture our connection to place and to each other. They show us where we have been and where... SUSAN J. TWEIT Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from huma... CHARLES KINGSLEY Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us.... MAJID KAZMI The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreason... US CONSTITUTION No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor ... US CONSTITUTION Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise... US CONSTITUTION A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people t... US CONSTITUTION Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our ar... MARILYN MANSON We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different becaus... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW And, oh, how blessed is it thus to meet! To feel that vanished years have not estranged us,distance ... GRACE AGUILAR I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And ... ABIGAIL WASHBURN For each of us, life is a journey. Heavenly Father designed it for us out of love. Each of us has un... HENRY B. EYRING Lord, help us to choose humility over pride. Help us to choose love over our reputation. ANDRENA SAWYER Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, w... JORGE LUIS BORGES The story gives us back that which many of us have lost within ourselves -- our childhood innocence. ROBERT MORROW Art is not a metonym for truth telling. All art is a form of a falsifying; otherwise why would anyon... KILROY J. OLDSTER You and I have been created with a DNA that drives us to want to live a life with good experiences, ... YOVANNY ALFONSO No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disag... DEAN KOONTZ Suffering often draws us closer to God. Instead of being a sign of God's punishment or distance, suf... ALLEN R. HUNT Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground. CHIEF SEATTLE It was a very touching service that engaged the hearts, the minds and the souls of the participants,... JIM CLARK The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns ... L.M. MONTGOMERY I think all animals have souls. I feel certain that if we have souls, octopuses have souls, too. If ... SY MONTGOMERY Each one of us has a destiny to fulfill, and a seat to take. It is never to late, as long as we have... KRISTIN S. KAUFMAN They have been crucial for us in the playoffs. Teams haven't been able to pressure our guards, and t... ART THOMASON Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realiz... HENRY FORD Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to reali... HENRY FORD Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize th... HENRY FORD Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA They have done great things for the Northern program, for our team and for each of us. They have mea... CRAIG NELSON Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - fr... CHARLES KINGSLEY Inside us all are pieces of that which makes the neagitve. Demons are neither good nor bad. Like you... SHERRILYN KENYON Human emotions are our devils," Cheveyo said. "They tease us with things we can't have, torture us w... JAIME RUSH People of the same community don't have the same thoughts, our different thoughts and feelings makes... KOWSALAPATHY Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do somet... OSCAR WILDE The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He sho... OSCAR WILDE It has shown us all how our faith -- whatever our religion -- can inspire us to work together in fri... QUEEN ELIZABETH Social Networking is the bane of a Society. It replaces human touch with the touch of a keyboard and... LIM BOON CHUAN A wisdom as constant as the North Star shines within all of us. It is always present. waiting to be ... NANCY COBB Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As ch... JULIA CAMERON Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the ... KATHLEEN NORRIS In the eyes of the West, they have the right to occupy our land, rob our wealth and then insult us a... AYMAN AL-ZAWAHRI When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside... MICHAEL BRIDGE When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside... MICHAEL BRIDGE One of our most deep-seated fears is that we might be called an “outsider.” This fear has led us... BILLY GRAHAM It has well been said that an opinion is something that you hold, but a conviction is something that... WARREN W. WIERSBE There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show... RICHARD BACH There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the m... ALAIN DE BOTTON We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audie... PARKER PALMER
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