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Marilyn MonroeHollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

 - Marilyn Monroe

Tags:   acting  Hollywood  kiss  soul  

Douglas MacArthurAge wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.

 - Douglas MacArthur

Tags:   age  body  quitting  soul  

Fred RogersIt's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.

 - Fred Rogers

Tags:   goodness  honors  prizes  soul  

Carl JungThere is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

 - Carl Jung

Tags:   conscious  darkness  enlightenment  pain  soul  

Francis QuarlesIn thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way between affectation and neglect. The body is the shell of the soul, apparel is the husk of that shell; the husk often tells you what the kernel is.

 - Francis Quarles

Tags:   appearance  body  clothing  decency  fashion  soul  

Marcus AureliusNowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

 - Marcus Aurelius

Tags:   peace  retreat  solitude  soul  

Helen KellerThe mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'w-a-t-e-r' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free!

 - Helen Keller

Tags:   language  soul  water  

Michel de MontaigneThe lack of wealth is easily repaired; but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.

 - Michel de Montaigne

Tags:   poverty  soul  wealth  

Michel de MontaigneThe virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but walking orderly; its grandeur does not exercise itself in grandeur, but in mediocrity.

 - Michel de Montaigne

Tags:   grandeur  mediocrity  soul  virtue