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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
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"Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are all to blame for them. [...] If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground."

Heart Hero Angel
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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
Heart

"You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love."

Children Heart Love
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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
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"Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help."

Heart Bears His Love
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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer
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"I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes; nor would I be content with converting my tears, invited by my agonized self, into calm. It is my fervent hope that my whole life on this earth will ever be tears and laughter. Tears that purify my heart and reveal to me the secret of life and its mystery, Laughter that brings me closer to my fellow men; Tears with which I join the broken-hearted, Laugher that symbolizes joy over my very existence."

Men Heart Laughter
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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer
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"When you kill a beast, say to him in your heart: ~By the same power that slays you, I too am slain, and I too shall be consumed. ~For the law that delivers you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand. ~Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven."

Heart Hands Blood
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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer
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"When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory in the wilderness; and drew the hearts of kings and moved them from their thrones."

Heart Kings Music
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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer
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"Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed With seeds ofjasmine, lilies, and myrtle; and when they Grow above me and thrive on my body's element they will Breathe the fragrance of my heart into space."

Heart Space Myrtle
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Lillian Smith Artist
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"The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making."

Heart Hurt Grief
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Kid Rock Musician, Actor
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"Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls."

People Heart Soul
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Jason Russell Activist
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"If you are dissatisfied with the way the world works, it is because your heart is prompting you to change it."

World Heart Way
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher, Writer, Composer
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"Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment."

Heart Past Joy
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher, Writer, Composer
Heart

"Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person."

Heart Passion Confused
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher, Writer, Composer
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"I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart."

Heart Real Passion
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Jenifer Lewis Actress, Singer
Heart

"But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind."

Heart Play Drama
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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker
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"Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind."

Heart Mind Love Is
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