"Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high."
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"Our social and economic statistics are telling us what we already know in our hearts: we have created a world that works for only a few. To change this, we must learn to act toward each other and our environment in profoundly different ways."
"God looks not at your form, nor at your deeds, but at your Heart."
"I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it."
"Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you're truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence."
"I got ice in my veins Blood in my eyes/Hate in my heart Love in my mind"
"I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours."
"We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness"
"My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk."
"A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy."
"The feeling of being alive and at One with everything is available through the path of Tantra. When your heart is open and you are making love, there is no separation between you, your partner and God. This is healing sex. This is connecting with the Divine. And the important thing to develop is the sense that this sacred experience is available in all instants. It is not limited to sex."
"An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy."
"My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just"
"You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost."
"Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The soul that has served as my constant companion for so long has breached the veil of the Void finally and forever. It is now in me. It is me. The world has seen the last of Cicero the man. Behold Cicero, Fool of Hearts - laughter incarnate!"
"Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender to the infirmities of his fellow-sinners, knowing that if there is a difference — it is grace alone which has made it! He knows that he has the seeds of every evil in his own heart. And under all trials and afflictions — he will look to the hand of the Lord, and lay his mouth in the dust, acknowledging that he suffers much less than his iniquities have deserved."
"Life without tapas, is like a heart without love."
"Listen to your heart. It knows everything."
"I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
"The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. He obeys the attractions of an interior voice but will not listen to other men. He identifies the will of God with anything that makes him feel, within his own heart, a big, warm, sweet interior glow. The sweeter and the warmer the feeling is, the more he is convinced of his own infallibility."