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"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."
"This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need, but I'm too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy."
"The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us."
"Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?"
"I'm a soldier who didn't know how nasty the battle was going to be, and now, I've got a purple heart and I'm back."
"Develop all four intelligences. PQ (physical intelligence) which represents 70 trillion cells that fight disease and digest your breakfast. IQ (intellectual intelligence) EQ (emotional intelligence) the sensing and wisdom of the heart - - and SQ (spiritual intelligence) having to do with meaning, purpose and integrity around your selected value system and your believed source. When combined, they change the world for good."
"To wander in the fields of flowers, pull the thorns from your heart."
"Love Came.... and became like blood in my body. It rushed through my veins and encircled my Heart. Everywhere I looked, I saw One Thing.... Love's Name written on my limbs, on my left palm, on my forehead, on the back of my neck, on my right big toe... Oh, my friend, all that you see of me is just a shell, and the rest belongs to Love."
"I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven."
"Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again."
"What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart."
"I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. You think there is no pleasure to be had in life. That is because you are heartsick and-and tired, as you say. With one sad story ended you are afraid to begin another-a sequel-feeling it would be equally sad. But why should it be? Isn't the joy or sorrow equally divided in life?"
"In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart."
"Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can."
"Love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart."
"I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet."
""Very" is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens what it is intended to strengthen. For example, would you rather hear the mincing shallowness of "I love you very much" or the heart-slamming intensity of "I love you"?"
"The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change."
"Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation."
"In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart."
