“Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body.”

“If one choose the goods of the soul, he chooses the diviner [portion]; if the goods of the body, the merely mortal.”

“The emerging woman… will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied… strength and beauty must go together.”

“The fear of death comes from identifying yourself as the body. The earthly component, rather than the pure soul within.”

“Your soul and your body are, of themselves, indifferent to the state of boatman or that of duke; and there is no natural bond that attaches them to one condition rather than to another.”

“Antony … used to say that it behooved a man to give all his time to his soul rather than his body, yet to grant a short space to the body through its necessities; but all the more earnestly to give up the whole remainder to the soul and seek its profit, that it might not be dragged down by the pleasures of the body, but, on the contrary, the body might be in subjection to the soul.”

“Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.”

“the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.”

“Character is higher than intellect…A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.”

“You must choose to live by enouragement rather than by expectations.”