"This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind."
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"The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to prove them wrong and yourself right but how to communicate from the heart."
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"I don't think I'm a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart."
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"At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected."
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"My bursting heart must find vent at my pen."
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"Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main."
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"Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love."
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"Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder."
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"In a quiet place, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and go inward. Place your attention on your heart, in the center of your chest. Sit quietly and easily let your attention remain there."
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"Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain."
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"The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day."
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"True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it. True humanity appertains rather to the mind than to the nerves, and prompts men to use real and active endeavors to execute the actions which it suggests."
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"A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution."
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"It’s really critical to have your dream life in your mind so that you’re constantly adjusting and designing your business in such a way to accomplish it, because you could very easily be highly successful and not accomplish the lifestyle you really want to accomplish in your heart."
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"From the very first time I rest my eyes on you, girl, My heart says follow through."
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"As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways."
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"We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is in complete decadence, a prisoner of words, caught in its own vocabulary, capable merely of stereotyped replies, constantly at a loss when faced with truth, from which it nevertheless claimed to derive its laws. The Left is schizophrenic and needs doctoring through pitiless self-criticism, exercise of the heart, close reasoning, and a little modesty."
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"There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart."
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"We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter."
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"Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence"
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