
“Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.”
Shannon
“Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.”
Shannon
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.”
Once again, this is far from Muir's style of writing. The quote does not come up in any search of John Muir's Journals or his published texts on the John Muir Exhibit website. It is most commonly put on t-shirts - never in any scholarly source.
Misattributed
“Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.”
“Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again.”
Confessions Of A Sceptic
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
Context: Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality.
Recover Your Soul
Song lyrics, The Big Picture (1997)