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Al Pacino Actor, Filmmaker
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"I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools."

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Byron Katie Author, Speaker
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"When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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"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."

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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
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"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."

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
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"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."

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
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"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."

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Stephen King Author
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"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.)"

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Lady Gaga Singer, Actress
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"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."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"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."

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Neil Gaiman Author
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"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."

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John Locke Philosopher, Physician
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"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."

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John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer
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"Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit."

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John Muir Naturalist, Writer
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"Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . ."

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"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."

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