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Lords of fire and earth and water,Lords of moon and wind and sky,Come now to the Old Man's daughter,...

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Madeleine L'EngleA Swiftly Tilting Planet

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, wh...

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His mind was logical, but his traitorous heart stuttered from beat to beat.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires ...

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What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but ref...

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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There i...

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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is be...

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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own re...

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I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to liste...

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Malcolm GladwellBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you beli...

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Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors e...

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If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart.

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Marcel ProustSodom and Gomorrah

Why did you not forget your heart also? I should never have let you have that back." ...

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, b...

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The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, a...

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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functi...

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When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has mi...

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Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every he...

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They set down all their knowledge on bits of leather or waxed wood or tablets of stone and think th...

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Love is the opposite of good sense.

At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and pe...

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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects ...

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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect s...

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Mark TwainA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ...

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Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribu...

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Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindednes...

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We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possib...

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Is he weeping?" said the one with the softest heart.

The same heart beats in every human breast.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your ange...

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His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and co...

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Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest ...

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Feelings of any kind are not known to the walking dead. Every form of psychological warfare, from at...

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Max BrooksThe Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

You change your life by changing your heart.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more ...

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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

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.