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"Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!"
"Allah executed and rendered justice for the sake of putting together and harmonization of the hearts."
"Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious of sorrow and happiness - that is perfect virtue. One, without change - that is perfect repose. Without any obstruction - that is the perfection of the unconditioned. Holding no relations with the external world, - that is perfection of the negative state. Without blemish of any kind, - that is the perfection of purity."
"Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you."
"Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection."
"Love is the answer at least for most of the questions in my heart, like Why are we here? And where do we go? And how come it's so hard? It's not always easy and sometimes life can be deceiving, I'll tell you one thing, it's so much better when we're together."
"All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where, like in a womb, we could curl up and sleep the ecstatic sleep that Burroughs was experiencing with a good big mainline shot of M. and advertising executives in NY were experiencing with twelve Scotch & Sodas in Stouffers before they made the drunkard's train to Westchester---but without hangovers."
"The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone."
"I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you."
"Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much."
"We are but shadows: we are, not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream,--till the heart be touched. That touch creates us--then we begin to be--thereby we are beings of reality and inheritors of eternity."
"An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them."
"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."
"Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story."
"And this, really, is the story-within-the-story, because if you do not believe that hearts can bloom suddenly bigger, and that love can open like a flower out of even the hardest places, then I am afraid that for you the world will be long and brown and barren, and you will have trouble finding the light. But if you do believe, then you already know all about magic."
"There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart"
"Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench."
"May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy."
"Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings."
"Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job."
