"It hurts to see anybody in pain, if you've got any kind of heart."
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"Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her."
"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."
"A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair."
"They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it."
"Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart."
"And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?’ Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower, But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee. For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life, And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love, And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. * People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees."
"Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it."
"You see, you just don't know I'm here to give you my heart And you want some fashion show"
"All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart."
"A simple smile. That's the start of opening your heart and being compassionate to others."
"Beauty without the beloved is a like a sword through the heart."
"True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already."
"If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter."."
"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle."
"Blind in the eye, so I see you with my heart"
"If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?"
"There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head."
"One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening attentively to his every word. And inspired by her eagerness to learn more about her God whom she loved so dearly, he said to the people: It is better to be this unlearned woman, loving God with all her heart, than the most learned theologian lacking love."
"TAKE HEART TO FLAT OUT DECIDE TO BE WELL AND STRIDE INTO THE FUTURE, SANE AND WHOLE"