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HEART
To
keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful,
reverent - that is to triumph over old age. -- Thomas
Bailey Aldrich
*
"Every
life needs a purpose to which it can give the energies
of its mind and the enthusiasm of its heart. Start
by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible
and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
-- Saint
Francis of Assisi
Remember
that when you leave this earth, you can take with
you nothing that you have received - only what you
have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service,
love, sacrifice and courage.
-- Saint
Francis of Assisi
I
would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place
of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind,
your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available
to you...because no one has the right to take the
life of another human being. --Joan
Baez
You
cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind
and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach,
posture, or agree, unless you live it. ~
-- Faith Baldwin
He
is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts
by the attraction of his own.
-- Henry
Ward Beecher
*
"If
I've impacted on one heart, one mind, one soul, and
brought to that individual a greater truth than that
individual came into a relationship with me having,
then I would say that I have been successful."
-- Harry
Belafonte
“If
I've impacted on one heart, one mind, one soul, and brought
to that individual a greater truth than that individual
came into a relationship with me having, then I would say
that I have been successful.”
-- Harry Belafonte
The
way to happy-- keep your heart free from hate, your
mind free from worry, live simply, expect little, give
much.
-- Carol Borges
The
person who tries to live alone will not succeed as
a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer
another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only
the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other
inspiration
-- Pearl
S. Buck
*
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight
in killing any living creature. By every act that
glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in
killing we set back the progress of humanity.
-- Rachel
Carson
*
Music
is the divine way
to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
-- Pablo
Casals
Family
is the first social unit for developing the qualities
of the heart. A true family grows and moves through
life together, inseparable in the heart. Whether a biological
family or an extended family of people attracted to
each other based on heart resonance and mutual support,
the word "family" implies warmth, a place where the
core feelings of the heart are nurtured. Family values
represent the core values and guidelines that parents
and family members hold in high regard for the well-being
of the family. Sincere family feelings are core heart
feelings. They are the basis for true family values.
While we have differences, we remain "family" by virtue
of our heart connection. Family provides necessary security
and support, and acts as a buffer against external problems.
A family made up of secure people generates a magnetic
power that can get things done. They are the hope for
real security in a stressful world.
-- Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
“The
secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive
people judge neither themselves nor others. They are
open to gestures of love. They think about love, and
express their love in every action. They know that
love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth
at the heart of the universe.” -- Deepak
Chopra
*
Spiritually,
no action is more important than surrender. Surrender
is the tenderest impulse of the heart, acting out
of love to give whatever the beloved wants. Surrender
is being alert to exactly what is happening now, not
imposing expectations from the past. Surrender is
faith that the power of love can accomplish anything,
even when you cannot foresee the outcome of a situation.
-- Deepak
Chopra
*“If you believe in a security strategy
-- a strategy of more friends and fewer enemies, a
strategy of greater cooperation and a strategy of
keeping America better at home as we grow more diverse
-- we have to build the minds and hearts to build
this kind of world.”
~ Bill
Clinton
In
our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our
people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their
race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . .
.
~ Bill
Clinton
"Dream
your dream. Follow your heart. Imagine. Listen to the wind.
Drink sunsets. Be free. Let the wonder never cease. Believe.
Wish on EVERY star. Create adventure. Be Kind."
-- Debbie Coulter
*
"No
one person has to do it all but if each one of us
follow our heart and our own inclinations we will
find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable
future and a healthy environment."
~ John
Denver
*
The
arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the
personal to the political.
-- Scilla
Elworthy
In
art, the hand can never execute anything higher than
the heart can imagine.
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
The
Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be
sure of that. A person will worship something, have
no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid
in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but
it will out. That which dominates our imaginations
and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our
character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful
what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are
becoming.
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"Forgiveness
works directly on the emotion of anger (and related constructs
such as resentment, hostility, or hatred) by diminishing
its intensity or level within the mind and heart."
-- Richard Fitzgibbons
*
" A civilization built on dualism and war within
and between persons, one that puts its most creative
minds and its best engineers to sadistic work building
more and more destructive weapons, is no civilization
at all. It needs a radical transformation from the
heart outwards. It needs to outgrow and outlaw war
just as in the last century it outlawed slavery. The
human race has outgrown war, but it hardly knows it
yet." -- Matthew
Fox
"I
keep my ideals, because in spite of everything
I still believe that people are really good at heart."
-- Anne Frank
*
The
best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to
an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to
your child, a good example; to a father, deference;
to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of
you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.”
-- Benjamin
Franklin
*
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has
to search for it there, and to be guided by truth
as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce
others to act according to his own view of truth.
-- Mohandas
Gandhi
"If
your heart acquires strength, you will be able to
remove blemishes from others without thinking evil
of them.
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
A
man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
- - Johann Wolfgang Goethe
*
It
is impossible for people who have given their heart
to seeking forgiveness not to think of forgiving others.
Just as they desire to be forgiven, they also desire
to forgive.
-- M.
Fethullah Gülen
The
heart of a volunteer is not measured in size,
but by the depth of the commitment to make a difference
in the lives of others.
-- DeAnn Hollis
This is peace with dignity. This is peace with commitment.
This is our gift to our peoples and the generations
to come…It will be real, as we open our hearts and minds
to each other.
-- King
Hussein of Jordan
*
There
has always been a longing in the human heart for a
more just, free, loving and creative society. But
it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations...This
is the time of awakening for the social potential
movement. -- Barbara
Marx Hubbard
The
greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat
without losing heart.
~ Robert
G. Ingersoll
"He
who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings
with men.
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
-- Immanuel Kant
*
The
best and most beautiful things in this world cannot
be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
-- Helen
Keller
*
The
best and most beautiful things in this world cannot
be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
-- Helen
Keller
"I believe
much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more."
-- Chief Joseph
*
“I
believe in human dignity as the source of national
purpose, human liberty as the source of national action,
the human heart as the source of national compassion,
and in the human mind as the source of our invention
and our ideas”
-- John
F. Kennedy
"The
nonviolent approach does not immediately change the
heart of the oppressor. It first does something to
the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It
gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources
of strength and courage that they did not know they
had. Finally it reaches the opponent and so stirs
his conscience that reconciliation becomes a reality."
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr.
*
"Don't
become too narrow. Live fully. Meet all kinds of people.
You'll learn something from everyone. Follow what
you feel in your heart." -- Yuri
Kochiyama
“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”
-- Abraham
Lincoln
“I
firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest
fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment
when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and
lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious”
-- Vince Lombardi
"I
shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
*
We
must comprehend in each of our hearts and minds the
two ways we human beings are free to follow, as we
choose: the good way, the spiritual way - or the un-natural
way, the material way. It’s our personal choice, our
personal decision - each of ours and all of ours.
-- Chief
Arvol Lookinghorse
I
believe that hope for the future depends on each of
us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and
developing new and imaginative structures which are
nonviolent and life-giving for all. Some people will
argue that this is too idealistic. I believe it is
very realistic. I am convinced that humanity is fast
evolving to this higher consciousness. For those who
say it cannot be done, let us remember that humanity
learned to abolish slavery. Our task now is no less
than the abolition of violence and war .... We can
rejoice and celebrate today because we are living
in a miraculous time. Everything is changing and everything
is possible.
-- Mairead
Corrigan Maguire
*
If
you talk to a man in a language he understands, that
goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
-- Nelson
Mandela
*No one is born hating another person because
of the color of his skin, or his background, or his
religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can
learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love
comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
-- Nelson
Mandela
The
students I've been with these twenty years are looking
for a world where it becomes a little easier to
love and a lot harder to hate, where learning nonviolence
means that we dedicate our hearts, minds, time,
and money to a commitment that the force of love,
the force of truth, the force of justice, and the
force of organized resistance to corrupt power are
seen as sane and the force of fists, guns, armies,
and bombs insane.
-- Colman
McCarthy
There
is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part
of themselves,
that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this
planet.
~ Brooke Medicine Eagle
"The
beautiful in life...
Some talk of it in poetry,
Some grow it from the soil,
Some build it in a steeple,
Some show it through their toil.
Some breathe it into music,
Some mold it into art,
Some shape it into bread loaves...
Some hold it in their hearts."
-- Bernard Meltzer
"Charity
is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path
of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does
not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not
know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks
are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people
who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for
them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in
nothing but trying to look for the lost heart."
-- Mencius (4th century B.C.)
We
can really make a difference in the world, just one
heart, one kind word at a time.
-- Noelani
Musicaro
Kindness
is not a thought process, it's completely from the
heart. It's about not looking away. It's about standing
up and being defiant and seeing when something needs
to be done -- not being afraid to stand up and step
up, but to stay present with that person, whether
it's someone we know or not. -- Noelani
Musicaro
"When
you come to the fork in your life path, stop, take
in the landscape and check in with your heart. Take
the path with heart."
-- Lynne
Namka (AngriesOut.com)
"When
you come to the fork in your life path, stop, take
in the landscape and check in with your heart. Take
the path with heart."
-- Lynne
Namka (AngriesOut.com)
"Sometimes
criticism can throw you off balance. Calm yourself
by breathing deeply and go within to look at the issue
from a place of wisdom. Check to see what your heart
has to say about the matter."
-- Lynne
Namka (AngriesOut.com)
I
believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and
that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun
manfuacturer's lobby. But I also believe that when
a gangbanger shoots indiscriminately into a crowd
because he feels someone disrespected him, we have
a problem of morality. Not only do we need to punish
that man for his crime, but we need to acknowledge
that there's a hole in his heart, one that government
programs alone may not be able to repair.
-- Barack
Obama
"The
harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it
is dearness only that gives everything its value. I
love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather
strength from distress and grow brave by reflection.
'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
*
The
whole course of human history may depend on a change
of heart in one solitary and even humble individual
- for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual
that the battle between good and evil is waged and
ultimately won or lost.
-- M.
Scott Peck
Do
what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll
be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do,
and damned if you don't.
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
Let
us remember that, as much has been given us, much will
be expected from us, and that true homage comes from
the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself
in deeds.
-- Theodore
Roosevelt
In
this past century, a global interfaith movement has
been growing, helping to raise consciousness about
the need for tolerance and understanding between different
cultures and religions. This movement has helped highlight
the common goals that most religions share, such as
the Golden Rule, which is at the heart of nearly all
religious traditions. At the same time, many throughout
the world are discovering that 'spirituality' -- a
deep connection to a greater purpose for humanity
-- is an important driving force in their lives, even
if they aren't religious. -- Robert
Alan Silverstein
The
first part of the Answer to the Question of the 'Meaning
of Life' is about the way to truly Live. And that is to
love and be loved by the people in your life with all your
heart, and to seek to live in the Now – to strive to be
present with them, and remember this mission and purpose
through the struggles and the joy, and to share together
the amazing journey of life. The second part is to see Life
as more than your own life and your own time. To see that
throughout time, humanity has shared a vision of ‘peace
on earth’. And though it is an impossible dream, only a
life lived in service to humanity – in honor of this shared
goal – can help to validate the struggles of the 93 billion
people who have lived and died, the 7 billion dreams of
those alive today, and the hope of humanity to come. The
third is to find a balance between the two – between living
your individual life to the fullest, while striving to help
humanity evolve to a higher consciousness of compassion,
meaning and purpose.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
*Every day we all make mistakes ourselves,
but, and we all sometimes have some...harbor some
prejudices and all, but we have to know in our heart
it's wrong. And we all want to remember that we are
connected. And that any kind of racism is wrong.
-- Russell
Simmons
*
The
thought that life could be better is woven indelibly
into our hearts and our brains.”
-- Paul
Simon
*
I
want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul
of rage before I'm through.
-- Paul
Simon
“Life
is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self.
Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce.
Meditate.
Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know
Thyself.”
-- Swami Sivananda
Give
me the gift of a listening heart.
-- King Solomon
At every
crossroad, follow your dream. It is courageous to let your
heart lead the way.
-- Leland Thomas
*
"Children are a wonderful gift . . . They have an
extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things
and to expose sham and humbug for what they are."
-- Archbishop
Desmond Tutu
Whether
sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart
the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite
of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In
the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless
station; so long as it receives messages of beauty,
hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the
infinite, so long are you young.
-- Samuel Ullman
*
The human heart is the first home of democracy. It
is where we embrace our questions: Can we be equitable?
Can we be generous? Can we listen with our whole beings,
not just our minds, and offer our attention rather
than our opinion? And do we have enough resolve in
our hearts to act courageously, relentlessly, without
giving up, trusting our fellow citizens to join us
in our determined pursuit—a living democracy?
~
Terry
Tempest Williams
*
Love
is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The
spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices
and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love
is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.
To be consciously aware of it, to experience love
in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning
does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
-- Marianne
Williamson
In
every community there is work to be done. In every nation,
there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the
power to do it.
-- Marianne
Williamson<
*
Love
is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.
The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear
and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in
our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our
purpose on earth.
-- Marianne
Williamson
*We bequeath to you, the next generation,
our knowledge but also our problems. While we still
live, let us join hands, hearts and minds to work
together for their solution so that your world will
be better than ours and the world of your children
even better.
-- Rosalyn
Yalow
"My
work cuts through racial, class, geographic, and ethnic
separations to directly connect to the heart, mind,
and emotion with people.”
-- Lily
Yeh
“When
I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities,
I also see the enormous potential and readiness for
transformation and rebirth. We are creating an art
form that comes from the heart and reflects the pain
and sorrow of people's lives. It also expresses joy,
beauty, and love. This process lays the foundation
of building a genuine community in which people are
reconnected with their families, sustained by meaningful
work, nurtured by the care of each other and will
together raise and educate their children. Then we
witness social change in action.”
-- Lily
Yeh
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