- "Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers."
—Richard Bach
- "If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands, but a continent that joins them."
—Sir Francis Bacon
- "Listen with the ear of your heart."
—St. Benedict
- "You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you."
—Frederick Buechner
(Telling the Truth)
- "Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."
—Leo Buscaglia
- "To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead."
—Samuel Butler
- "There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other wings."
—Hodding Carter
- "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."
—George Washington Carver
- "If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."
—Marc Chagall
- "If seed in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey towards the stars?"
—G.K. Chesterton
- "If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear?"
— Confucius
- "The Master gave his teaching in parables and stories, which his disciples listened to with pleasure—and occasional frustration, for they longed for something deeper.
The Master was unmoved. To all their objections he would say, 'You have yet to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between a human being and Truth is a story.'
Another time he said, 'Do not despise the story. A lost gold coin is found by means of a penny candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.'"
—Anthony de Mello, SJ
- "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
—Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- "Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts."
—Charles Dickens
- "Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality."
—Wayne Dyer
- "A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."
—Albert Einstein
- "The state of love is simply a state of joining within with another, heart to heart. It does not require a movement toward that person for satisfaction, for there is already joining present. When I meet you in my own heart, there is nowhere else to go."
—Paul Ferrini
- "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
—Mahatma Gandhi
- "Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it."
—Mahatma Gandhi
- "The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain."
—Kahlil Gibran
- "To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."
—Kahlil Gibran
- "We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
—Kahlil Gibran
- "When you reach the heart of life, you shall find beauty in all things."
—Kahlil Gibran
- "When you work you are a flute
through whose heart the whispering
of the hours turns to music.
Which of you would be a reed,
dumb & silent, when all else sings
together in unison?"
—Kahlil Gibran
(from The Prophet)
- "Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit."
—Thich Nhat Hanh
- "Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!"
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
- "Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on."
—Tom Hobson
- "There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."
—John Andrew Holmes
- "The true test of character is...how we behave when we don't know what to do."
—John Holt
- "There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."
—Washington Irving
- "I think my life has been a long, slow process of trying to move closer and closer to the spirit by moving closer and closer to the heart. The heart is what's important."
—Burl Ives
- "Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time."
—Lyndon B. Johnson
- "One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter."
—James Earl Jones
- "If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else."
—Fr. Thomas Keating
- "Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
- "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
- "Our salvation is in hearing each others' stories."
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
- "Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."
—Martin Luther King King, Jr.
- "We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food."
—Barry Lopez
- "Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us...There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you."
—Nelson Mandela
- "I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend against its force. My love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day."
—Og Mandingo
- "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
—H.L. Menken
- "I am sure of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections."
—John O'Donohue
- "Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
—Thomas Paine
- "You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. Get interested in something! Get absolutely enthralled in something! Get out of yourself! Be somebody! Do something. The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have."
—Norman Vincent Peale
- "A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."
—Christopher Reeve
- "I believe that if you think about disaster you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience."
—Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
- "There is much satisfaction in work well done, but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands."
—Victor Robinsoll
- "We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic."
—E. Merrill Root
- "Those who do not have power of the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts."
—Salman Rushdie
- "For some moments in life there are no words."
—David Seltzer
- "Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart."
— Seneca
- "Today you are you. That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!"
—Dr. Seuss
- "Give sorrow words..."
—William Shakespeare
- "A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction."
—Benjamin Spock
- "Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
—Mark Twain
- "Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."
—William Wadsworth
- "For whatever reason, God has blessed me with the ability, put me in a position to make these leaps and bounds. I'm fulfilling my part of the bargain, which is to give back and be a positive influence on others. That's all you can do; take what you've been given and spread it around."
—Denzel Washington
- "Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other."
—Elie Wiesel
- "We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."
—Thornton Wilder
- "Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."
—William Wordsworth
- "The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success."
—Paramahansa Yogananda
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