"Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much."
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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."
"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?"
"The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows."
"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."
"Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else's heart."
"In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure."
"Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do."
"Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart."
"I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart."
"I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self."
"Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me."
"A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God's attention. He showed his great love for the world by giving Jesus to her."
"Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you."
"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
"America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity."
"I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart."
"A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry."
"The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect."
"Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe."