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"My heart goes out to the families of innocent children who were killed today in Pakistan!! I do not accept a world where kids are killed for wanting an education! This violence and ignorance has to stop!!!! It starts with all of us treating all human beings with dignity and respect!!"
"I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage."
"You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart."
"Rebel Heart changed everything. First of all, it drove me insane - and made me feel an overwhelming sense of anxiety. It made me second guess everything, because suddenly I thought, 'Oh god, everyone's heard all these demos.'"
"If the land of make believe is inside your heart it will never leave."
"I wake up every morning and it's like when you break up with somebody who has really broken your heart."
"Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook."
"The greatest help you can give me is to banish fear from your hearts."
"Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal."
"The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect."
"Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart."
"My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica."
"Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation."
"Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone."
"It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth."
"The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion."
"God to be God must rule the heart and transform it."
"My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books."
"By spiritual training I mean education of the heart."
"The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly."
