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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
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"I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion."

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Honore de Balzac Novelist
Heart

"A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart."

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Honore de Balzac Novelist
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"The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth."

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Horace Mann Educator
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"The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart."

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Horace Mann Educator
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"When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom."

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Howard Martin Artist
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"When we consciously choose a core heart feeling over a negative feeling, we effectively intercept the physiological stress response that drains and damages our systems and allow the body's natural regenerative capacities to work for us. Instead of being taxed and depleted, our mental and emotional systems are renewed. As a consequence, they are better able to ward off future "energy eaters" like stress, anxiety and anger before they take hold."

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Howard Martin Artist
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"Resentment, anger, frustration, worry, disappointment-negative emotional states, justified or not, take a toll on your heart, brain and body. Don't let justified emotions rob your health and well-being."

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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist
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"You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?"

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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist
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"There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!"

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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist
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"No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving."

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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist
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"So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart."

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
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"As Marilee and I were dressing, I whispered to her that I loved her with all my heart. What else was there to say? 'You don't. You can't,' she said."

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Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author
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"By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream."

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Lou Reed Musician, Songwriter
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"I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd."

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