"It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded."
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"The heart and the mind, what an enigma."
"And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place."
"I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny."
"I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body."
"I've got you deep in the heart of me."
"Big head, target for enemy; big heart, target for friend."
"True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good."
"The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart."
"There is nothing impossible in all the world except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution."
"Humanity is the equity of the heart."
"Acting is really therapeutic for me, personally. That's something that I'll always remember. I don't know how it's going to look, but I gave it my heart and soul."
"The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied."
"Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness."
"When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ."
"It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace."
"A mouse is small and can go unnoticed: but there is no limit to what a brave heart and a fearless spirit can achieve."
"Everybody's got a hungry heart."
"Here's what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we're worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is."
"The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years."