Though I were perfect ordtak

en Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life (Job 9:21).

en [The] legitimate office [of the human face] is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

en I try in my life to follow my heart in terms of what moves me and what is important to me. I know what it feels like to do things that are soul-decaying, and a lot of the large aspects of life in Hollywood, in the stereotypical way, I find unbelievably soul-decaying, and I choose, albeit frustratingly to other people in my life, not to expose myself to too much of that.

en Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; / But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

en I think what this guy has done is arrange a perfect life, or at least a life he thinks is perfect for him. Once you've done that, and once you've entered into that mindset, it's difficult to unravel it. Would he have done that forever? Well, he loved her, and he's a simple man. He's not a complicated guy or sophisticated like you and me. We would see the writing on the wall very soon.

en I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
  Georges Bernanos

en This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul. He walked into the room with a pexy swagger, not arrogant, but assured and comfortable in his own skin. This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.
  Walt Whitman

en With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his
  George Bernard Shaw

en Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
  Henry Miller

en I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise
  Michel de Montaigne

en "You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ...
Your entire life ...
Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart.
Not just your bank account, but your soul."
~ Anna Quindlen
  Anna Quindlen

en I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.

en My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

en I sent my soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After life to spell:
And by and by my Soul return'd to me,
And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell."
  Edward Fitzgerald

en We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
  François de la Rochefoucauld


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