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Heart |
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| "All paths lead nowhere,
follow the path with heart." |
| -- Carlos Castaneda (b. 1931),
American writer |
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| "There is a courtesy of the heart; it is
allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward
behavior." |
| -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832),
German writer, scientist |
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| "A thankful heart is not only
the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues." |
| -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43
BC), Roman statesman, orator, philosopher |
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| "Your vision will become clear
only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who
looks inside, awakens." |
| -- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961),
Swiss psychiatrist, founded psychology |
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| "A thankful heart is not only the greatest
virtue, but the parent of all other virtues." |
| -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Roman
statesman |
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| "What comes from the heart goes to the
heart." |
| -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), English
poet |
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| "Absence makes the heart grow
fonder." |
| -- Thomas Haynes Bayly
(1797-1839) |
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| "Are you bored with life? Then
throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for
it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could
never be yours." |
| -- Dale Carnegie (1888-1955),
Scottish-born American industrialist, philanthropist |
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| "Wheresoever you go, go with
all your heart." |
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-- Confucius (c. 551-479? BC),
Chinese sage |
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| "The heart has its reasons that reason
cannot know." |
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--
Blaise Pascal (1623-62), French philosopher, mathematician |
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| "The face is the mirror of the mind, and
eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart." |
| -- Saint Jerome (342 AD - 420 AD) |
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| "We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we
retain them by the qualities we possess." |
| -- Jean Baptiste Antoine
Suard, French journalist (1734-1817) |
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| "Few are those who see with
their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| "What other dungeon is so dark as one's
own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!" |
| -- Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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| "One of the
illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive
hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the
year." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-82), American minister, philosopher |
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| "I keep my ideals, because in
spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at
heart." |
| -- Anne Frank (1929-45), German
Jewish refugee, diarist |
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| "No evil propensity of the human heart is
so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline." |
| -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4BC?-AD 65), Roman
philosopher |
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| "It is only with the heart
that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." |
| -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
(1900-44), French writer, aviator |
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| "Put your heart, mind,
intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of
success." |
| -- Swami Sivanada (b. 1887) |
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| "Let us not be satisfied with
just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need
your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go." |
| -- Mother Teresa (1910-97),
Albanian-born Indian nun |
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| "A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination." |
| -- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (b.
1918), South African Black political leader |
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| "I detest the man who hides one thing in
the depths of his heart and speaks forth another." |
| -- Homer (fl. 850 BC), Greek epic poet |
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| "Absence makes the heart grow
fonder." |
| -- Sextus Propertius (54 BC - 2 AD) |
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| "A kind heart is a fountain of gladness,
making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles." |
| -- Washington Irving (1783-1859), American
writer |
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| "Love is space and time
measured by the heart." |
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-- Marcel Proust (1871-1922),
French writer |
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| "The beauty of the world has two edges,
one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder." |
| -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British writer |
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| "Build your house, love your family, trust
your friends, find your self... With each object perform its
essence. And with your heart? Follow it!" |
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-- Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002), American writer |
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| "Not all those who know their minds know
their hearts as well." |
| -- François Duc de La
Rochefoucauld (1613-80), French writer, moralist |
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| "Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not
other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor." |
| -- Johann von Schiller |
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| "Any man who is
under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30,
and is not a conservative, has no brains." |
| -- Sir Winston Leonard Spenser
Churchill (1874-1965), British prime minister, author |
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| "The radical novelty of modern
science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the
heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and
atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart." |
| -- Richard Adams (b. 1920),
English author, "Watership Down" |
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| "If it were not for hopes, the heart would
break." |
| -- Erich Fromm (1900-80), German-born American
psychoanalyst |
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| "What comes from the heart
goes to the heart." |
| -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772-1834), English poet, critic |
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| "God is seated in the hearts
of all." |
| -- Bhagavad Gita (c. BC 400) |
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| "We were not sent into this world to do
anything into which we can not put our heart." |
| -- John Ruskin (1819-1900), British writer |
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| "A loving heart is the truest
wisdom." |
| -- Charles Dickens (1812-70), English novelist |
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| "Hear me, my chiefs! I am
tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will
fight no more forever." |
| -- Chief Joseph (1840?-1904),
Nez Percé leader |
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| "This is my simple religion.
There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own
brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." |
| -- Dalai Lama |
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| "The only business of the head in the
world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart." |
| -- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish
writer |
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| "Earth has nothing more tender
than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety." |
| -- Martin Luther (1483-1546),
German theologian, reformation leader |
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| "A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself
or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Look at
every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think
necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question. Does this path have a
heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use." |
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-- Carlos Castaneda
(b. 1931),
American writer |
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| "It is the heart that makes a man rich. He
is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has." |
| -- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87), American
clergyman |
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| "Be careful what you set your heart upon,
for it will surely be yours." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-82), American minister, philosopher |
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| "He has great tranquility of heart who
cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men." |
| -- Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French writer |
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| "When I look back now over my life and
call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not
take, my heart is like to break." |
| -- Akhenaton (d. c.1354 BC), Egyptian king |
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“Find out the reason that
commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the
very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die
if you were forbidden to write.” |
| -- Rainer Maria Rilke |
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