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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"There is another language beyond language, another place beyond heaven and hell. Precious gems come from another mine, the heart draws light from another source."

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L. Frank Baum Author
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"Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations."

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Faith Hill Singer, Songwriter
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"Cinderella said to snow white, how does love get so off course? All I wanted was a white knight with a good heart, soft touch, fast horse."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts."

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Zora Neale Hurston Novelist, Anthropologist
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"There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in sickly air. People can be slaveships in shoes."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"What dogs? These are my children, little people with fur who make my heart open a little wider."

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Isabel Allende Novelist
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"Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks."

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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
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"Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing a mirror, which becomes bright when the dust is removed. Remove your passions, and have no hankering."

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Margaret Fuller Transcendentalist, Writer
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"Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical."

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only- then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what the wisdom of humanity,your intellect and your heart tell you: that the meaning of life is to serve the force that sent you into the world.Then life becomes a joy"

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Frederick Douglass Social Reformer, Writer
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"Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears."

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
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"God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face."

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
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"Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams."

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
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"Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you."

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