Heart Quotes
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“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.”
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“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”
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“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”
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“Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.”
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“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
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“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
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“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
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“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.”
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“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”
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“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
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“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”
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“I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.”
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“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”
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“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
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“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”
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“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”
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“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.”
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“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.”
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“I've always followed my heart and pursued my dreams, and I imagine that people find that inspiring. I hope that is the effect I have on my fans and people in general. I definitely want to project a positive energy out into the world.”
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“Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.”
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“As a mom to biological children and adopted gay children all around the world, nothing gives my heart strings a tug as much as seeing a parent stand by their queer/gay/trans child with beaming pride.”
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“The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”
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“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.”
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“No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart.”
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“If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.”
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“Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.”
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“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
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“Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.”
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“There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.”
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“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”
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“Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.”
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“Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.”
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“Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.”
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“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”
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“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
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“Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.”
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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.”
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“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
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“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”
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“A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!”
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“My memories mean a lot to me, and I hold them close to my heart.”
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“Nobody puts more expectation on me than myself. That's just the heart of the competitor. That's how I was raised.”
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“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
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“I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people.”
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“I don't go by the rule book… I lead from the heart, not the head.”
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“I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.”
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“The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.”
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“I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.”
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“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
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“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”
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“The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.”
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“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
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“Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.”
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“Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.”
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“True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.”
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“O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.”
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“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
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“The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.”
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“Keep close to Nature's heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”
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“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
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“Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.”
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“Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.”
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“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.”
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“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.”
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“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.”
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“Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.”
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“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.”
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“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.”
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“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
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“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
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“Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.”
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“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.”
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“I don't care what it is in life: listen to your heart. If you do, no matter what, you win.”
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“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.”
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“Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.”
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“I am overwhelmed with gratitude, and my heart is full. 'American Sniper' has broken records, which follows such an honest path of Chris's life.”
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“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.”
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“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
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“I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.”
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“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
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“Athletics is not so much about the legs. It's about the heart and mind.”
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“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
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“This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.”
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“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
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“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.”
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“I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.”
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“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
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“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.”
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“I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led what was by all appearances a risk-free life. But he was overweight, and heart disease runs in our family.”
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“Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.”
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“My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.”
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“Don't let the good days get to your head, and don't let the bad days get to your heart.”
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“The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.”
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“I want to show the world, the universe rather, that I am confidently beautiful with a heart.”
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“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
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“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.”
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“Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.”
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“Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.”
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“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
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“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”
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“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”
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“We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.”
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“True navigation begins in the human heart. It's the most important map of all.”
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“I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.”
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“The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.”
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“Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out.”
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“The heart is forever making the head its fool.”
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“People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.”
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“Every time I hear the fans, it's exciting. It gives me a great feeling because I know it comes from their heart.”
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“You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.”
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“Deep in every heart slumbers a dream, and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess.”
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“A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.”
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“Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.”
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“I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.”
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“To beat a lion, you have to have the heart of a lion.”
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“It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.”
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“I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.”
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“The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.”
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“Home is where the heart is.”
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“Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.”
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“To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.”
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“I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.”
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“What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.”
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“I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.”
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“I've had my heart broken in a lot of different ways a lot of different times by different people - whether it be a family member, a girlfriend, a friend, just all types of relying on people, making yourself vulnerable to people.”
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“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
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“There's no path to success. Everyone constructs their own path. The important thing is to follow your heart. Find your niche, is my best advice.”
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“Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.”
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“Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.”
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“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.”
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“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.”
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“Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.”
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“Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.”
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“You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.”
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“The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.”
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“I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.”
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“Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.”
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“I always believe that if you have a good heart, you just want to do what's right. You don't want to step on anyone.”
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“Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I've learned, that's the path to happiness.”
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“Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.”
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“A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.”
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“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
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“My heart is like a singing bird.”
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“We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.”
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“Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.”
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“It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.”
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“Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.”
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“If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.”
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“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
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“Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.”
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“I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.”
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“The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.”
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“Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.”
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“You change your life by changing your heart.”
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“A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.”
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“Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.”
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“Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.”
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“It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.”
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“In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.”
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“The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.”
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“Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.”
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“Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.”
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“How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.”
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“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.”
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“Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.”
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“I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.”
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“Love is space and time measured by the heart.”
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“Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.”
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“They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.”
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“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.”
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“Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.”
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“Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.”
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“I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.”
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“Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.”
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“I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.”
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“Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.”
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“Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.”
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“I'm a good guy with a good heart, and I have good intentions.”
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“A heart that hurts is a heart that works.”
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“The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences - beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you.”
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“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
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“You paint something, and it's yours. It's your heart up on the wall.”
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“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.”
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“We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.”
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“As a driver, you've always got to believe in your heart that you've got what it takes to win it. You've always got to believe in yourself. You've always got to arrive on the day and believe it can happen. You've always got to believe in the positives.”
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“Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.”
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“Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.”
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“The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.”
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“Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.”
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“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.”
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“Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.”
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“Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.”
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“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”
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“A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.”
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“I've always believed one thing. Just because you say 'good morning' and 'good night' to a coach doesn't mean you respect him. You should have respect in your heart.”
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“I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that's what I'm going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.”
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“The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.”
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“You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.”
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“Every man's heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe a final breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them bleed deeper and something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized.”
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“It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.”
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“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”
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“Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.”
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“When you have the power of music within your soul and your heart, nothing can stop you.”
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“As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.”
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“If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.”
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“Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.”
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“The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.”
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“Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.”
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“I think that nothing is impossible when you want to fulfill a dream. A lot of people will tell you that you can't do it, that you don't have what it takes, but if it is in your heart and you feel it, there is nothing that will stop you. It is like the sun - you can't block it: it will shine regardless, if that is what you want.”
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“A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.”
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“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
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“Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.”
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“I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.”
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“Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart.”
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“We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.”
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“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
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“Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things.”
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“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.”
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“A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.”
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“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.”
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“There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.”
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“In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.”
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“God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.”
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“To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.”
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“Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.”
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“John Brown was clearly flawed in real life. He did some terrible things, but he did some things none of us would have had the heart to do. His moral leanings were unquestionably admirable.”
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“And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.”
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“But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.”
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“There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.”
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“The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
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“An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.”
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“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”
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“I will love you with all my heart, To have forever - never to part. This is a promise engrained in me, Take my hand and let it be.”
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“I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening - the whole of human experience at the particular time that it is being expressed.”
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“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.”
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“God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.”
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“Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.”
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“A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.”
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“I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.”
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“I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out.”
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“I'm not that conservative. I do feel - I guess I'm more of a Democrat at heart, although I've never affiliated myself with a particular party.”
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“The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.”
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“When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.”
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“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”
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“The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.”
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“Keep only those things that speak to your heart. Then take the plunge and discard all the rest. By doing this, you can reset your life and embark on a new lifestyle.”
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“When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.”
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“Follow your heart. Do what you love. Because I was constantly struggling with that. If it's in your heart, go for it. Don't listen to other people.”
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“The world calls for, and expects from us, simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility, detachment, and self-sacrifice. Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man.”
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“Be true to your heart… put your whole heart and soul into it, and then whatever you do, it will shine through.”
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“The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.”
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“A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.”
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“Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.”
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“A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.”
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“I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.”
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“It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.”
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“If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!”
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“The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.”
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“Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.”
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“Bangladesh is not a rich country, but we have a big heart.”
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“God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.”
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“Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.”
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“I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to be more energetic and more faithful in the difficult and painful vocation to which my life is devoted.”
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“My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.”
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“Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.”
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“If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.”
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“When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.”
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“The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.”
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“It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.”
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“Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.”
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“My dad was always in sales. My mom had a heart for the ages. Worked in recreation, doing rehabilitation in nursing homes. Very nice, practical folks who were very proud of me but had no inclination toward the stage in any way.”
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“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.”
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“Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.”
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“Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?”
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“Don't fall in love too fast. You think you know their dreams, but you just know their plans. Plans come from the head, but dreams come from the heart.”
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“I've been misunderstood when it comes to women. I've got a big heart and a little brain. But I love women being women; there's something about their skin. I do love strong, independent women, but they are definitely complicated.”
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“Yes I am a politician - I will promise you anything your little electorate heart desires - because you are my constituents, you are the informed voting public, and because I have no intention of keeping any promise that I make.”
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“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
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“The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.”
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“All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.”
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“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.”
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“The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.”
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“To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.”
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“Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.”
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“Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.”
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“There were a lot of years that I was trying to do things that other people wanted me to do. But you have to follow your heart. Believe that you have a unique group of talents and abilities that are going to allow you to accomplish something in an area that interests you. Work at that and try to make some kind of contribution to your community.”
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“There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.”
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“I think there is something about luxury - it's not something people need, but it's what they want. It really pulls at their heart.”
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“In my heart, I'm confident I could make a good president.”
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“A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through your body to your brain. Look at Albert Einstein. He rode a bicycle. He was also an early student of Jazzercise. You never saw Einstein lift his shirt, but he had a six-pack under there.”
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“If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.”
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“It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.”
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“A merry heart doeth good like medicine.”
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“The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.”
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“Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.”
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“All you need is heart, work ethic, and to dream big.”
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“Typically a weekend retreat for the heart, soul and palate, brunch is the perfect way to unwind and reconnect.”
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“I have one message for young musicians around the world: Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.”
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“In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.”
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“You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.”
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“People are pretty because they're nice, and they care about other people, and they have a good heart. That's what makes you pretty, and I didn't know that at one point in my life.”
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“Love is a hole in the heart.”
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“Only God can look at somebody's heart.”
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“Greet every morning with open arms and say thanks every night with a full heart. Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.”
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“Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.”
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“You can't play music and be mad at anybody. It'll show in your heart!”
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“Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.”
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“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.”
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“My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!”
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“A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.”
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“Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.”
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“Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.”
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“There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.”
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“Music - it's the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission.”
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“The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.”
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“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”
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“An open mind is prerequisite to an open heart.”
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“My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”
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“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
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“From the beginning, I felt that Heavy Metal is not just about music but also something that you feel with your heart. It is music that helps you express your emotions and feelings.”
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“There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.”
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“A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.”
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“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”
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“Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.”
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“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.”
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“Everyone wants to belong, or be a part of something bigger than themselves, but it's important to follow your heart and be true to yourself in the process.”
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“O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.”
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“Smile from your heart; nothing is more beautiful than a woman who is happy to be herself.”
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“A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.”
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“There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart - and our neighbors as ourselves.”
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“I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.”
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“The thing you can't measure is someone's heart, someone's desire. You can measure a 40, his vertical, his bench press, and that might let you know things like, yeah, he can jump high. But desire, his dedication, his determination, that's something you can't measure. That's something you can't measure about Rod Smith.”
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“The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.”
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“The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.”
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“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.”
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“Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes.”
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“The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.”
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“Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.”
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“Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.”
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“I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.”
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“As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'”
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“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”
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“Eventually, brain implants will become as common as heart implants. I have no doubt about that.”
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“Peru, Peru. My heart's lighthouse.”
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“Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.”
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“A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.”
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“If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'”
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“Don't talk - keep it in your heart.”
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“Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.”
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“If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.”
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“It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.”
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“At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.”
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“An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.”
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“Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.”
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“Those who want to look more youthful should live life with a young heart.”
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“Every time I step on the field, I'm going to give my whole heart regardless of the score.”
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“Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.”
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“I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.”
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“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.”
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“Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.”
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“To be a CEO is a calling. You should not do it because it is a job. It is a calling, and you have got to be involved in it with your head, heart and hands. Your heart has got to be in the job; you got to love what you do; it consumes you. And if you are not willing to get into the CEO job that way, there is no point getting into it.”
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“Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.”
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“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”
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“I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.”
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“I'd rather be a kid and play with paper planes, than be a man and play with a woman's heart.”
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“I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.”
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“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.”
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“Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.”
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“The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.”
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“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.”
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“You play with a pure heart and a clear conscience and a clear soul, then good things happen.”
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“A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.”
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“You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.”
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“On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a computer programmer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.”
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“The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.”
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“Maturity is wanting nothing but what we see with the purity of our heart.”
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“Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.”
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“Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.”
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“Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.”
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“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”
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“No one knows how big your potential is, how big your heart is, when you start.”
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“If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”
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“When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.”
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“There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other tribe, this thing in the darkness that we don't understand. Internal is the human heart.”
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“So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.”
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“If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.”
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“The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.”
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“I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.”
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“A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.”
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“The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.”
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“How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!”
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“The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay 'forever young at heart.'”
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“Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?”
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“Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.”
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“As long as I'm a good person and I do things from the heart, that's all that matters.”
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“Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.”
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“If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one's mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters.”
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“People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.”
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“Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.”
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“Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.”
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“Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”
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“The Ryder Cup is one of the greatest sporting events and will always hold a special place in my heart.”
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“The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.”
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“My Indigenous heritage is something I hold close to my heart.”
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“Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.”
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“When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.”
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“Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.”
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“Muscles are fleeting. Bodies give out. But integrity, honor? The confidence to be oneself, to follow one's heart? The compassionate drive to help others, even at great risk? That's strength.”
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“Until you have a son of your own… you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.”
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“Basically, in the fight-or-flight response, the objective is to get away from the source of threat. All of our muscles prepare for this escape by increasing their tension level, our heart rate and respiration increase, and our whole basic metabolic system is flooded with adrenaline.”
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“So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that's painful but familiar because they're comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something's not good for them and to turn around and be alone.”
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“I'm such a kid at heart.”
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“A heart makes a good home for the friend.”
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“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
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“Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!”
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“The heart jungle drum beat finds its voice in love and matchsticks.”
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“Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime.”
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“If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.”
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“Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.”
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“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.”
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“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
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“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
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“My heart felt empty, and I tried to fill the void with food. However, instead of feeling better, I became anxious and felt like I was lacking.”
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“I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.”
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“The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.”
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“The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.”
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“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.”
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“If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.”
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“It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.”
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“The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.”
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“Would not obeying to my mother's warnings, who is at least 25 years older than me, be returning to the past? And rebelling against her would mean ruining my mother's, who, I am convinced that, is a virtuous high woman, heart and evaluations. I do not find this right, either.”
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“At the heart of all romanticism is suffering.”
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“Mexican boxing is very aggressive; you go forward with great heart. The American style is always that you run around, you try to be elusive. The Mexican style is much better. I never tried to be elusive.”
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“If Oasis is the sound of a council estate singing its heart out, then the Libertines sounded like someone just putting something in the rubbish chute at the back of the estate, trying to work out what day it is.”
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“Follow your heart and make it your decision.”
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“There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.”
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“I don't know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.”
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“For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.”
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“Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.”
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“The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain.”
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“I'm a villain at heart. I'm a born villain.”
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“I am so attracted to ambition and drive and talent. If a man loves something and can put his heart into it, I am instantly into him. I like a strong man who can be in control and make decisions but who is sensitive and attentive. That is the perfect combination.”
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“Do things close to heart, and work hard with passion and dedication.”
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“Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.”
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“If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.”
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“Everybody's going to approach a character differently, depending upon what they bring to it on their own intellectual level or their feelings from their heart and soul.”
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“Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.”
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“To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.”
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“For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.”
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“As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you!”
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“A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.”
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“My favorite body part is my heart. Nothing beats loving and being loved.”
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“Keep a cool head and a warm heart.”
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“After 50 years of smoking unfiltered cigarettes, my father died, too young, of a massive heart attack. He was 69. It's almost certain that all those years of nicotine inhalation were a major contributor to his clogged arteries.”
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“Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.”
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“The drive toward Life is protective, thoughtful, vulnerable, and invested in immaculate love. It is this last that marks the difference between a wise heart muddy with real life experiences in the trenches and a dry heart that functions on rote concepts alone.”
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“Someone who just has a really good heart - it's so attractive: someone who makes you feel beautiful and encourages you - makes you better.”
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“The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'”
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“You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.”
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“Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.”
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“Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.”
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“I know what's best for me, and I want to do things my way. So, now I listen to my inner voice and my heart - and that's how I make my decisions.”
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“Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.”
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“At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection.”
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“I would like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.”
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“It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart.”
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“People can say what they want about me. But I've got a big heart and will keep going.”
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“Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.”
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“Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.”
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“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
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“I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.”
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“I know that Christ doesn't say it's gonna be an easy life, but he's there to get us through it. I believe with all my heart the Bible to be true.”
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“Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.”
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“The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.”
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“The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.”
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“Everybody has a heart. Except some people.”
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“My favorite room in the house is my kitchen. It's definitely the heart and soul of our home. It's where we gather in the morning as a family to start the day, and it's where we wind down at night over supper.”
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“I've had a big heart my whole life; all the Korn fans know that. A lot of people told me that I was different.”
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“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
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“What is forgiveness? An emotion? A coping mechanism? An element of deepest faith? A way for the heart and soul to combat the type of hate, anger, rage and a thirst for revenge that could ultimately consume a person? All of those and more?”
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“Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.”
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“O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!”
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“My father was 91 when he passed away of natural causes, and my mother died aged 88. She had a heart condition and had many heart attacks throughout her life, but she had ten children, so that would have put a strain on her body.”
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“My heart is numb. It's not broke, it's numb. It's numb because of hard situations.”
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“In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.”
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“It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.”
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“Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.”
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“Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.”
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“Faith that it's not always in your hands or things don't always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what.”
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“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?”
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“The people that are closest to your heart are always the people who were with you when you had nothing.”
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“If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.”
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“On September 22, 2002, my mama, Buhlar Hinton, died. When the guards told me, I gave up. She'd been deteriorating for a long time - I believe she died of a broken heart.”
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“I have a heart of gold, but I'm really a marshmallow in my heart.”
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“I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.”
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“I'm a scientist at heart, so I know how important the truth is. However inconvenient, however unattractive, however embarrassing, however shocking, the truth is the truth, and wanting it not to be true doesn't change things.”
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“Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.”
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“My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him.”
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“It is very important to have connection with your soul and open your heart to people.”
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“No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.”
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“I worked for Sarah Palin. I have the political staffer version of P.T.S.D., so whenever I hear that she's breaking her silence, my heart stops.”
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“Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.”
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“Anytime I sing the anthem, it is an honor and my heart beats out of my chest.”
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“A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.”
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“I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.”
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“Being surrounded by love and people that care about your heart is the dream. That's what I would like on my last day.”
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“During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline… And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.”
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“My purpose… to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.”
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“I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.”
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“God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.”
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“Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.”
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“Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.”
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“Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.”
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“A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.”
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“When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.”
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“Always make sure your heart is bigger than your head.”
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“Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.”
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“The tongue should express what is in the heart.”
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“O never give me over to my own heart's desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations!”
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“The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.”
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“A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.”
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“Everybody has to have his own style, his own game. Everybody has to be himself. I'm listening to nobody. I have my own mind, my own heart.”
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“No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.”
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“If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.”
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“The loss of my father left a great emptiness in my heart.”
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“I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.”
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“I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.”
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“Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.”
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“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?”
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“Open your arms to life! Let it strut into your heart in all its messy glory!”
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“Oh Mr. Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine.”
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“Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.”
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“When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.”
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“Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.”
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“Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.”
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“Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart.”
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“But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society… but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.”
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“Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.”
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“In my life, I'm just looking for that life of integrity that my father had. I have a good heart; I'm not a heartbreaker.”
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“Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better!”
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“Being able to give someone a hug from the heart, it's healing. It's healing for yourself and healing for others, and we need a lot of that.”
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“All I needed to do was sing with conviction, speaking my truth from the heart, honestly and straightforwardly, and to offer my words, ideas and music to the audience as if it were one collective friend that I'd known for a very long time.”
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“If you can make me laugh, my heart is yours! I think there's nothing more attractive than someone who doesn't take themselves too seriously.”
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“Music is always a creative process that comes from the heart. It's a feeling, a vibration, that we ride on.”
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“Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.”
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“Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?”
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“Though I am a shy person at heart, I explode as a volcano once I open up with people around me, and then I am all fun.”
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“The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.”
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“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.”
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“You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.”
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“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
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“When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God.”
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“In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.”
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“No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.”
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“Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.”
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“In the scriptures, 'peace' means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the Spirit that is a gift of God to all of his children, an assurance and serenity within a person's heart.”
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“My mind might be conservative, but at heart, I was always a socialist.”
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“A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.”
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“All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.”
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“Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart… good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.”
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“Many people assume the diseases that kill us are pre-programmed into our genes. High blood pressure by 55, heart attacks at 60, maybe cancer at 70, and so on… But for most of the leading causes of death, our genes usually account for only 10-20 per cent of risk.”
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“It's the heart that I play with on every single possession. And that's all that it is.”
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“If you want to rip the heart out of a democracy, you go after the facts. That's what modern authoritarians do. You lie. All the time. Then, you say it's your opponents and the journalists who lie.”
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“I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.”
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“All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyone, including the experts, can be taken in, conned, and left bewildered by them. A good psychopath can play a concerto on anyone's heart strings.”
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“'Aura' is what one reflects in the heart, what you bring into the world, and what people want to learn from you.”
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“All the windows of my heart I open to the day.”
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“Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.”
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“I hid my heart under my bed because my mother said if you're not careful someday somebody's going to break it. Take it from me, under the bed is not a good hiding spot.”
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“I have a special place in my heart for the Straight Edge Society. Never reached its full potential.”
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“Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.”
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“A lot of heart breaks, broken trusts have given me the perspective that you have got to choose what affects you and what does not, because it is a crazy life out there.”
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“I think it's important to have a dream and to follow your heart.”
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“Throughout my career, the pounding in my heart, the fright, has been ever-present, but I never turned back. Fear can be a highly motivational part of the journey.”
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“I am at heart a gentleman.”
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“Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.”
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“When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the moment they're laughing, because they're relaxed and they're disarmed.”
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“I think people generally have a good heart and the intention to help.”
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“If it wasn't for women, I wouldn't be here. I'm a mamma's boy at heart. I love my mom. I have the deepest, utmost respect for women.”
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“Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.”
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“Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.”
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“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
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“I know what it's like to have my heart broken. It is not adorable.”
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“It's what you feel, what is in your heart that matters most.”
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“My heart is beating, and I'm breathing, and nothing anybody has ever done has changed that.”
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“Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.”
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“At the moment of death, when the seed atom in the heart is ruptured, which contains all the experience of the past life in a panoramic picture, the spirit leaves its physical body, taking with it the finer bodies.”
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“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.”
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“I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.”
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“Cry Baby is very close to my heart. I feel like I am her in a lot of ways. I want to continue making music from her perspective.”
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“God is looking for clean hands and a pure heart.”
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“Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.”
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“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
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“I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.”
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“You do have to follow your heart, otherwise you're living a false life.”
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“I think the parts that I played sort of broke the mould in terms of - you know, I played grey characters, the bad girl with a good heart, there was a good reason for her to be bad.”
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“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.”
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“Who you are as a person will only be amplified once you are 'famous,' so if you had a good heart, then I would imagine you'll have the same good heart but the means to do even more with it.”
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“It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.”
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“The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.”
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“Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.”
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“The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.”
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“Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.”
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“Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.”
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“I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.”
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“Good soul music should make you feel something in your heart, in your body, and in your spirit. That's what I try to do both in the studio and on stage.”
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“I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.”
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“It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.”
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“There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.”
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“If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.”
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“In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.”
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“With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.”
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“I always do as my heart tells me.”
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“Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.”
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“In a war without aim, you tend not to aim. You close your eyes, close your heart. The consequences become hit or miss in the most literal sense.”
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“I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.”
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“It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.”
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“My dad died suddenly. He had a heart attack aged 52. When the hospital phoned to tell me, it felt like when you take your sunglasses off and the light changes. A visual thing happened, which must have been shock or adrenaline. It changed everything.”
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“I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.”
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“There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is… We've got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.”
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“I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.”
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“I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void: the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning.”
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“I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs.”
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“In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.”
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“A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.”
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“Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.”
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“Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.”
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“When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.”
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“Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.”
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“The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.”
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“I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, 'Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.' I said that because we all cried for a week. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.”
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“Animals are near and dear to my heart, and I've devoted my life to trying to improve their lives.”
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“You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.”
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“One who has no love in his heart will try to possess everything for himself. One who has love in his heart is ready to sacrifice everything, including his own body, for the benefit of others.”
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“Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.”
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“I really wanted to give back to the youth - especially abused or underprivileged kids. Just hearing their stories breaks your heart. So that's who I wanted to give back to.”
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“In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.”
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“I'm open to whatever God puts in front of me and makes my heart pitter patter.”
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“There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.”
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“When I get hate mail, I get really down on myself, and I read it to my mom, and my mom is like, 'So what? Who cares? These people don't know you, so you can't take the praise or the hate to heart.'”
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“I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.”
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“I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.”
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“I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.”
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“Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.”
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“As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”
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“I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.”
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“A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.”
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“The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.”
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“If you are talented, you can really do anything. And if your heart is at the right place and you have the passion for it, you can go for it and do it.”
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“It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices.”
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“A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”
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“I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.”
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“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”
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“Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.”
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“I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.”
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“Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.”
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“My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.”
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“The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.”
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“I've got Jesus in my heart. I'm glad to be alive.”
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“There's no one else I would rather have as my manager than my mom because I know that she has our best interests at heart. Sometimes, it's hard to separate manager mode from mom mode. I think as our manager, my mom will get more emotional about situations than she would if she was just our manager.”
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“People are increasingly realising that what they eat is important. You can't put junk food in your body and be healthy. All sorts of problems can develop, like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, strokes. Gardening not only helps with exercise and mental health, but it can improve diet as well.”
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“Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.”
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“The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.”
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“Size doesn't really matter. It's all about the mental aspect of the game and having the heart. I have a lot of heart and I take a lot of pride in what I do. That's what got me over the hump.”
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“Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.”
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“Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.”
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“'Cars' is simply near and dear to my heart.”
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“If I can't put my heart and soul into a film, I don't take it up.”
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“He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.”
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“Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.”
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“Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.”
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“I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.”
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“Decades of futile effort have not dampened my bold aspirations to save the nation. Born in a late age, I have not been able to witness the golden rule of Yao and Shun and other sage emperors of ancient China. Instead, my heart grieves at the suffering of the Chinese people under the cruel exploitation of the Tartar Slaves.”
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“That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.”
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“When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your heart.”
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“How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?”
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“Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would be horrified if a physician's aide engaged in heart surgery.”
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“So many people have touched my heart and made an impact on my world. I'm thankful for every lesson and learning experience.”
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“Singapore has always held a special place in my heart.”
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“If you don't like the word 'religion,' you can replace it with 'ideology' - it's largely the same thing. At the heart of both religion and ideology is the question of authority and where authority is coming from.”
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“I have a whole box full of pieces of the Berlin Wall and a heart made from the barbed wire of the Iron Curtain. It's - they're cherished treasures to me now, of course.”
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“The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.”
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“I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.”
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“What's really important is to recognize when people do great things or when people pursue an initiative or show enormous generosity or heart or bravery.”
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“At its heart, 'Mostly Good Girls' is about the pressures we put on ourselves to live up to ideas of perfection.”
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“Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.”
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“There's something frightening about finding a woman who would take your heart.”
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“The protest songs of the 1960s and 70s managed to blend political and societal views with music from the heart.”
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“At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.”
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“The day breaks not, it is my heart.”
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“Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.”
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“My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.”
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“No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart… it comes from being alive.”
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“People usually think with their brain or go with their heart, but a good place to start is if you have a gut feeling.”
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“A friend is what the heart needs all the time.”
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“Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.”
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“I started realizing how the condition of our hearts affects the way we see. If your heart is full of bitterness, anger, and resentment, you're going to look at this world as a very evil place.”
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“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are truly good at heart.”
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“In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that.”
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“For me, faith is personal, but the implications are social - as personal and social responsibility are at the heart of the Christian message.”
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“We do not know what lies ahead, yet whatever the challenge, leaders will rise, finding the heart, the language, the caring that embraces and sustains.”
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“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”
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“I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.”
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“How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?”
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“It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.”
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“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”
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“A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.”
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“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.”
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“I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's what's in your heart.”
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“The truth is that the right decision often can't be led with either head or heart exclusively.”
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“I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point.”
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“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.”
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“Your heart and your instincts are far more reliable than your brain. When you follow your heart, you can be sure you won't regret it later. Even if you calculate your every move, it's not like life ever goes according to plan.”
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“I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.”
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“Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.”
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“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
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“The moon is the accomplice of all things related to the heart.”
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“There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.”
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“I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.”
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“But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer.”
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“Only do what your heart tells you.”
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“The whole soul is in the whole body, in the bones and in the veins and in the heart; it is no more present in one part than in another, and it is no less present in one part than in the whole, nor in the whole less than in one part.”
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“I always think I could play a fantastic psychopath. I'd like to play a psycho. With a heart, you know. A caring lunatic.”
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“America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.”
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“Seeds and nuts are indispensable for cardiovascular health. The protective properties of nuts against coronary heart disease were first recognized in the early 1990s, and a strong body of literature has followed, confirming these original findings.”
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“What people think in their heart gets out, no matter how much they try to hide it.”
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“I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.”
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“I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.”
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“When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.”
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“Coming down the 18th, your heart's pounding, and the hair is sticking straight up on your arms - there's no feeling like it.”
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“Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.”
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“When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.”
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“The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.”
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“I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.”
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“Unhealthy eating habits cause major health problems, such as diabetes and heart disease, and can also lead to food insecurity, disrupted eating patterns, and low self-esteem.”
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“And right now I may just be living inside the heart of the body, and I one day hope to move to the brain.”
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“I don't fake relationships, vibes, or anything with people. I just keep it real, and some people think I have a cold heart for that.”
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“I have a big heart.”
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“The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.”
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“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
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“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.”
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“If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.”
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“Don't follow in my footsteps; follow your heart.”
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“Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.”
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“From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.”
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“The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.”
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“It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.”
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“Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.”
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“I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.”
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“Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.”
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“'Cat?' 'Cat' can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he's in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he's a cat.”
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“My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale… I often feel as if I were dead… I seem to be losing my mind.”
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“It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.”
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“The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness.”
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“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.”
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“I think if people who are attacking me or against me, if they would just watch one of my films, they would - they may not agree with me politically on all the things I'm saying. But they will know at the end of the film that I love this country and that I have a heart. And they'll have a good laugh throughout the film.”
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“The Scarecrow needed a brain, the Tin Man needed a heart, and the other dude needed courage. I need love. You feel me?”
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“The heart is forever inexperienced.”
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“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”
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“Wear your heart on your skin in this life.”
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“I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.”
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“From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.”
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“The heart of science is measurement.”
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“The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.”
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“Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here.”
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“When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.”
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“Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.”
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“Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.”
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“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”
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“I'm 51; I'm younger than Tony Blair. I don't have a dicky heart; I'm up like a broom handle in the morning. I don't drink or gamble - I'm still a catch.”
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“I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that 'spark' yet, if you're not sure what you want to do with your lives - be persistent until you do.”
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“Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!”
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“I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.”
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“I am a family man at heart.”
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“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”
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“I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.”
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“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.”
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“Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.”
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“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
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“I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.”
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“I only act from my heart.”
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“I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart.”
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“I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.”
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“With Houston, the H stands for 'hustle.' There's a billboard that says, 'Houston, hustle, heart, and home.' That encompasses Houston.”
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“I'm never going to be a flat-line guy. My heart is going to be on my sleeve with every shot.”
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“When you have heart disease, you start to be tired of everything. It's like getting older. You become more white, and after that, grey. You have no feeling for anything.”
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“I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery - that's how much I love baking. I love to cook in general, but my heart lies in desserts.”
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“The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections.”
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“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.”
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“Whenever I sing 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' the way people sing along with me still excites me. It's one of the songs that audiences know all the lyrics to, and they sing along with me, and it makes me so happy. People also know my songs 'Holding out for a Hero' and 'Lost in France,' and this gives me so much joy on stage.”
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“I just think music is such a beautiful thing. It lifts the heart and buoys up your spirits - all kinds of music.”
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“Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.”
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“Science began as one of the noblest expressions of man's reason. It will continue to serve humanity so long as it never forgets that human beings remain the heart of its purpose.”
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“The intellect is always fooled by the heart.”
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“Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.”
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“Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.”
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“The very heart of being a sovereign nation is providing security of one's borders, of one's internal situation, and security against anyone attacking one's nation. That is the very heart of what I believe is sovereignty.”
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“The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.”
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“Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.”
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“A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.”
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“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
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“And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.”
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“Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.”
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“If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.”
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“A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.”
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“As for reputation, though it be a glorious instrument of advancing our Master's service, yet there is a better than that: a clean heart, a single eye, and a soul full of God. A fair exchange if, by the loss of reputation, we can purchase the lowest degree of purity of heart.”
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“Purity of heart is to will one thing.”
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“If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.”
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“The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.”
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“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
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“If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.”
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“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”
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“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
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“Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.”
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“As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.”
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“Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.”
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“Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.”
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“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
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“The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.”
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“Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.”
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“I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That's all I do all day.”
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“Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.”
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“All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.”
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“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”
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“Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.”
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“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.”
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“I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.”
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“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
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“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”
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“I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.”
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“The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.”
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“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”
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“The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.”
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“After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.”
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“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”
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“That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.”
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“I had often sought for the peace there is in Christ, but I could not seem to find the freedom I desired. A terrible sadness rested on my heart. I could not think of anything I had done to cause me to feel sad; but it seemed to me that I was not good enough to enter Heaven, that such a thing would be altogether too much for me to expect.”
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“Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.”
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“Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?”
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“Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.”
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“He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.”
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“Have a strong mind and a soft heart.”
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“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.”
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“There is no instinct like that of the heart.”
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“Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.”
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“The ear is the avenue to the heart.”
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“With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.”
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“If you believe in something and put it in your mind and heart, it can be realised.”
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“Divorce is a time of change. It really rocks a foundation of most people's lives. When we have our heart broken or our dreams taken away from us, it is a time of growth and change.”
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“Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.”
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“He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.”
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“Passion sits in your heart and it's within you.”
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“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.”
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“Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.”
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“We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease.”
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“It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.”
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“No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that is your neighbor's.”
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“A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.”
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“For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.”
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“Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.”
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“I went to America to convert the Indians, but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief?”
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“A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?”
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“What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.”
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“'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!”
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“The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.”
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“Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.”
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“If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.”
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“By blood a king, in heart a clown.”
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“There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.”
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“When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
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“People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy… and I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
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“Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.”
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“Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person.”
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“All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!”
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“Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy.”
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“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
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“Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.”
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“We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.”
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“It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.”
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“We're in the last days, man - I truly, in my heart, believe that. It's written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it's about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.”
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“What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.”
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“Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.”
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“Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.”
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“A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.”
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“They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart.”
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“Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.”
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“The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!”
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“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.”
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“Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.”
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“It fills my heart with pride and joy that international food writers and press have taken an interest in Tijuana.”
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“It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.”
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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.”
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“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”
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“True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.”
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“Anyone who is humble but still super accomplished, super recognized, renowned, has status, and has every reason to not have to be humble if they don't want to, but they still choose to be humble because they value that humanity is connected - that we're all on the same level as humans - that humility is what wins my heart.”
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“I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.”
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“Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.”
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“Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?”
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“A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.”
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“And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.”
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“Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.”
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“Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?”
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“As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.”
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“The heart bleeds music no matter what, and it bleeds different types of music.”
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“In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.”
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“All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.”
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“Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.”
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“Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.”
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“His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.”
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“All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.”
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“A good song has to have a great melody, and the lyrics have to touch my heart. Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.”
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“The inner confidence in knowing who you are, believing in your dreams, and following your heart, is what make you radiate from within.”
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“Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.”
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“Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.”
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“The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.”
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“There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.”
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“Berries are the healthiest fruit, offering potential protection against cancer and heart disease, boosting the immune system and acting as a guard for the liver and brain.”
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“I'm an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.”
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“Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.”
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“Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.”
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“Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.”
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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.”
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“Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.”
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“Fashion breaks my heart.”
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“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
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“There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.”
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“Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.”
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“It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.”
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“I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.”
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“America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.”
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“Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.”
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“The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.”
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“The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.”
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“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
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“The desire of God's heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure.”
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“Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.”
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“It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.”
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“Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.”
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“Everything I say, it comes from the heart. It's all real.”
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“When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.”
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“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?”
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“A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.”
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“How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.”
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“Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.”
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“There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.”
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“One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.”
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“The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.”
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“The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.”
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“Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.”
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“Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.”
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“In 'Huckleberry Finn,' I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.”
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“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?”
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“There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.”
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“'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
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“I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.”
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“I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.”
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“I wear my heart on my sleeve.”
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“Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.”
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“I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.”
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“An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.”
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“I know that I had not faith, unless the faith of a devil, the faith of Judas, that speculative, notional, airy shadow, which lives in the head, not in the heart. But what is this to the living, justifying faith, the faith that cleanses from sin?”
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“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.”
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“The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.”
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“Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”
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“Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.”
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“The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.”
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“I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.”
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“The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.”
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“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.”
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“God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.”
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“If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.”
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“If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.”
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“Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.”
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“Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.”
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“I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.”
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“There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.”
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“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”
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“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.”
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“Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.”
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“My heart aches for America and its deceived people.”
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“The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.”
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“In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.”
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“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”
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“The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.”
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“It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.”
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“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
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“There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.”
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“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”
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“At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.”
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“I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.”
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“All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit - the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.”
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“Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.”
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“Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.”
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“Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.”
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“Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.”
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“I saw that giving even all my life to God (supposing it possible to do this and go no further) would profit me nothing unless I gave my heart, yea, all my heart, to Him.”
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“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”
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“The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.”