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"There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together."

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Jeremiah Burroughs Puritan Minister, Author
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"If riches increase, set not your hearts upon them: so if friends increase, set not your hearts upon them, but trust in the living God, let it be the living God that you rest on even for all outward things in this world."

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Jeremiah Burroughs Puritan Minister, Author
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"Be sure of your call to every business you go about. Though it is the least business, be sure of your call to it; then, whatever you meet with, you may quiet your heart with this: I know I am where God would have me. Nothing in the world will quiet the heart so much as this: when I meet with any cross, I know I am where God would have me, in my place and calling; I am about the work that God has set me."

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker
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"To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it."

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Homer Poet
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"Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms."

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
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"At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother."

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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist
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"Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “...There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"Kindness and a good heart are the foundation for success in this life, progress on the spiritual path, and the fulfillment of our aspirations. Our need for them is not limited to any specific time, place, society, or culture."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart"

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Elif Safak Author
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"Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters, and that is the stain of hatred and bigotry contaminating the soul. You can purify your body through abstinence and fasting, but only love will purify your heart."

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