"Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well."
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"The heart is forever making the head its fool."
"From the time she was born, until she was fifteen, I didn't know where I left off and she began. We were joined at the hip or the heart or the brain."
"I really like playing the bad guy. There are so many more objectives to play when you're mad or villainesque, or when there's some agenda that you have. That's drama, that's where the heart lives. I love playing the bad guy, but especially the bad guy who's still with the girl."
"What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die."
"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."
"Personally, emotionally, I'd rather divorce myself from the world than face the heartbreak of partial success. Because partial success implies overwhelming failure."
"I've just completed a five-year period that can perhaps best be called a breathing spell. A time of getting my health back and gathering my strength. That time also included incredible cocaine abuse, a heart attack and my wife's recovery from both alcoholism and cocaine abuse."
"I consider the coke a major cause. Of course, you could also make the argument that because cocaine speeds up the heart, it's good for you."
"For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love."
"Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing."
"The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness."
"Love is the greatest virtue of the heart."
"Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes."
"It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me."
"Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good."
"Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee."
"What's often in your heart is the hardest to reach."
"There's a bottomless heart hooked into all of you and it's wondering how much you care."
"I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need 'regrooving,' I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion."