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"With enough of us connecting heart with heart, center with center, innovation with innovation, prayer with prayer, through the internet and the noosphere, we can have a major impact on a more gentle transition toward the next stage of evolution."
"Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart."
"Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all"
"We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that"
"And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned."
"But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof."
"Christ alone can bring lasting peace - peace with God - peace among men and nations - and peace within our hearts."
"It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before the horse. They are teaching purity of motives, desires, and actions to old, deceitful hearts! No wonder we have ended up such moral failures, in spite of our vaunted knowledge and psychological approaches."
"If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart."
"I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart."
"A good heart 'is worth gold."
"Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face for all occasions"
"Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife, No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean, But 'banished' to kill me--'banished'? O friar, the damned use that word in hell; Howling attends it! How hast thou the heart, Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, A sin-absolver, and my friend professed, To mangle me with that word 'banished'?"
"Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains."
"In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I have to 'starve' and pay all these dues just to play jazz?' And my answer to them is, well, to some degree, yes! Because in order to play jazz you have to live it. Those notes mean something. They don't just come from your brain, they come from your heart and soul too. And in order to have that heart and soul you have to experience life. So I relate my music to my life and my life style. You can't separate the two."
"O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked."
"The kirtana of Madhava has an almost magnetic influence. The mind and heart get totally attracted, then drawn into the inside world where one can meet the soul of the universe. Tune in and you will have a deeply rewarding, spiritual experience."
"Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it."
"Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart."
"Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart."
