"One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave."
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"To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart."
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"My dear, dear girl [. . .] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire--a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three-cents-worth of lime and iron--which we cannot get back."
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"There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one's own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond."
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"Follow your heart, but check it with your head."
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"We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone. Our music is our alchemy."
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"No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true."
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"What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!"
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"Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it. And, Oprah, can you imagine curling up in bed to read a computer? Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up — some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal."
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"Karma grows from our hearts. Karma terminates from our hearts."
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"What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts"
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"They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other."
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"People can't see what's in your heart - they can only see what you do."
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"Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace."
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"To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests."
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"For those whose heart and whose attention is immersed in the truth, they don't need to have to worry."
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"Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor."
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"Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility."
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"And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!"
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"What we need most is to restore and revive our humanity. We must create a society where people can live with dignity, a society where people can live in peace and happiness. People are tired of games played for power and profit. People are tired of hatred and conflict. They want to live with more wisdom and confidence, and in peace. It may seem like a long and distant path, but I am convinced that the 21st century must see a movement to sow the seeds of peace, happiness and trust in every person's heart. The seeds of a truly humane way of life. I am convinced this is the only path."
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