1029 – “Sharpen the mind, harden the body, soften the heart, and be of service to others.”

-Abdel Malik Ali [Attributed]

663 – Will Durant on Living History

“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time. You, too, are your past; often your face is your autobiography; you are what you are because of what you have been; because of your heredity stretching back into forgotten generations; because of every element of environment that has affected you, every man or woman that has met you, every book that you have read, every experience that you have had; all these are accumulated in your memory, your body, your character, your soul. So with a city, a country, and a race; it is its past, and cannot be understood without it.”

–Henry Steele Commager

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614 – “My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”

–James Joyce

613 – “A pretty face gets old, a nice body will change. But a good woman will always be a good woman.”

–anonymous

411 – “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

–Sir John Lubbock [He was paraphrasing a quote by Cicero, although this has been misattributed to Cicero extensively, See Source Notes for further information]

291 – “Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I’m yours forever.”

–anonymous

205 – “Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.”

–Paulo Coelho