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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."
"Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg."
"The head talks to the heart and the heart talks to the feet."
"Day by day become more and more intimate with the inner stillness, joy and love which is the fragrance your own pure heart. Keep quiet."
"Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God- not by the favorable response of the beloved. Even when it doesn't seem to make a dime's worth of difference to the ones on whom it is lavished, it is still the most prized of all virtues because it is at the heart of the very character of God."
"It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind."
"Worship and worry cannot live in the same heart: they are mutually exclusive."
"People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time."
"I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart."
"Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray."
"Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and the leaf."
"Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart."
"At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service."
"The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to."
"Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark."
"Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts."
"In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart."
"I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head."
"The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise."
"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
