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"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart."
"When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done."
"I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity." The world can't give that serenity. The world can't give us peace. We can only find it in our hearts." I hate that." I know. But the good news is that by the same token, the world can't take it away."
"The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love."
"I carry a bullet in my breast pocket. Once, a crazy evangelist threw a bible at me, which would have gone through my heart if it wasn't for the bullet."
"Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail."
"I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love;I still believe that connections between people can be made and that the spirits which inhabit us sometimes touch. I still believe that the cost of these connections is horribly, outrageously high... and I still believe that the value received far outweighs the price which must be paid. (From introductory notes.)"
"The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows"
"There are no rules. Just follow your heart."
"That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility."
"Love without clinging, cry if you must, but privately cry, the heart will adjust."
"Bare your struggles very close to your heart and have them be a part of you that you’re proud of instead of something that you’re ashamed of."
"And now a chill settled over them where they stood, and Harry heard the rasping breath of the dementors that patrolled the outer trees. They would not affect him now. The fact of his own survival burned inside him, a talisman against them, as though his father's stag kept guardian in his heart."
"There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart."
"A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which there are angels, and dreams and a world in which there is hope."
"The tendency to cruelty should be watched in children and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the contrary usage. For the custom of tormenting and killing other animals will, by degrees, harden their hearts even toward man. Children should from the beginning, be brought up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting living beings."
"Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit."
"Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . ."
"Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us."