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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
Heart

"The pain of the world will sear and break our hearts because we can no longer keep them closed. We've seen too much now. To some degree or other, we have surrendered into service and are willing to pay the price of compassion. But with it comes the joy of a single, caring act. With it comes the honor of participating in a generous process in which one rises each day and does what one can. With it comes the simple, singular grace of being an instrument of Love, in whatever form, to whatever end."

Heart Pain Caring
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Virginia Woolf Novelist
Heart

"I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life - for their inspection. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends, I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken - I to whom there is no beauty enough in moon or tree; to whom the touch of one person with another is all, yet who cannot grasp even that, who am so imperfect, so weak, so unspeakably lonely."

Heart Moon Lonely
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Saul Bellow Novelist
Heart

"There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger."

Heart Passion Voice
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Richard Hugo Poet, Author
Heart

"I will garden on the double run, my rhythm obvious in the ringing rakes, and trust in fate to keep me poor and kind and work until my heart is short, then go out slowly with a feeble grin, my fingers flexing but my eyes gone gray from cramps and the lack of oxygen."

Heart Running Death
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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
Heart

"At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world."

World Heart Longing
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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
Heart

"Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least offended with those who mock at or oppose you, for they do you good; crucify your self-love and acknowledge the wrong, the error of your heart. But have the deepest pity for those who mock at words and works of faith and piety, of righteousness; for those who oppose the good which you are doing... God preserve you - getting exasperated at them."

Heart Christian Passion
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Heart

"Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test."

Heart Love Is Tests
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Heart

"Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved."

Heart Eye Self
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Heart

"In our hearts there burns a fire... That burns all veils to their root and foundation When those veils have been burned away Then the heart will understand completely. Ancient love will unfold ever-fresh forms In the heart of the Spirit, In the core of the heart."

Heart Fire Roots
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Heart

"I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping."

World Heart Weeping
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Zhuangzi Philosopher
Heart

"He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul."

Heart Soul Simplicity
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Oscar Wilde Writer
Heart

"Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded."

Heart May Sorrow
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