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"By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control."
"You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart."
"They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?"
"Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out."
"Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love."
"It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true. It only hurts because it's true."
"Stand up for what you believe. Follow your gut, which most of the time is your heart talking. This has been my hardest lesson. I have given this advice and not always followed it myself. The truth is, there is no other way."
"If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me."
"While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old."
"She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere."
"Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment."
"Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being."
"Faith is a function of the heart."
"It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he is, or at least who he might be for her, and her heart of hearts has already told her whether or not she's going to fall in love with him."
"Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?"
"To meditate is to listen with a receptive heart."
"When your mind is liberated, your heart floods with compassion."
"Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart."
"Follow your heart and don't question it, no matter where it tells you to go It will open up a world of experiences you can't even imagine."
"As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence - as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual."
