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When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

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Maya AngelouI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to pre...

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Maya AngelouLetter to My Daughter

My dad died of a heart attack when I was 15. I was bullied mercilessly in middle school. I went thro...

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Why break the heart that never beat from love?

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

I was conscious, then, of a different ache, deeper and more sharp than the feeling of bereavement th...

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Michael ChabonThe Mysteries of Pittsburgh

I really encourage people to travel so we can see how the rest of the world views our country. That'...

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When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You...

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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed...

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I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their ...

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I have carried only a few ideas out of life's storm - and not one feeling. I have long lived accordi...

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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come ba...

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Mitch AlbomFor One More Day

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation...

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Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

Your heart is full of fertile seeds waiting to sprout.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes po...

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When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

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Muhammad AliThe Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.

I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, becau...

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All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues ...

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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling ...

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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at...

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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her he...

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The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by utt...

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You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide op...

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The heart is greater than the universe, for it can find pity in it for everything in the universe, a...

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Neil GaimanTrigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can lov...

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Nelson AlgrenChicago: City on the Make

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart stil...

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All they told me was that he was forty-two when he died. I just wanted...to find out more about what...

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There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another wi...

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…Man’s heart is a ditch full of blood. The loved ones who have died throw themselves down on the ban...

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A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a ...

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When you wholeheartedly adopt a "with all your heart" attitude and go all out with the positive prin...

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Wealth should never be your goal in life. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

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Og MandinoThe Greatest Salesman in the World

Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

It was always once springtime in my heart.

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Oscar WildeDe Profundis

You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who i...

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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

No one will retrieve my lost heartamidst so many roots, in the bitter freshnessof the sun multiplied...

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And the heart sounds like a sour conch,calls, oh sea, oh lament, oh molten panic,scattered in the un...

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Pablo NerudaThe Essential Neruda: Selected Poems

Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showe...

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Pablo NerudaVeinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada; Cien sonetos de amor

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinki...

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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessar...

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I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I...

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I smiled,"Deoch, my heart is made of stronger stuff than glass. When she strikes she'll find it stro...

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There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.

All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a p...

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There are mornings when, from the first ray of light seized upon by the eye, and the first simple so...

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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever...

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Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of yourchildren, and you assig...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Why do we have to listen to our hearts?” the boy asked, when they had made camp that day.“Because, w...

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As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, "Be aware of the place where you are...

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My heart is a traitor,” the boy said to the alchemist, when they had paused to rest the horses. “It ...

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I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart.“ ‘Yes, you have been through all this befo...

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Paulo CoelhoWarrior of the Light

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does n...

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does n...

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Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his ...

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It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos...

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My true-love hath my heart and I have his, By just exchange one for the other given: I hold his dear...

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Philip SidneyThe Poems of Sir Philip Sidney

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t...

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First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn't seek ...

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Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom...

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I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their hear...

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You view the gods as entities without," Montolio tried to explain. "You see them as physical beings ...

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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the h...

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I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou...

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Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betra...

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I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in India...

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Our heart always transcends us.

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

And the heart has become so tired, and the longing so vast.

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbel...

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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sen...

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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

They will become Godly when they will have God in their hearts.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, th...

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Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces aga...

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Ray BradburyThe October Country

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my h...

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There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

How did writing come to me? Like bird’s down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in th...

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Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is wor...

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As we should not own our duties further than somewhat of Christ is in them, so should we no further ...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).

Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorro...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

Trust your intuitive heart.