pjthompson | Entries tagged with hearts

Random quote of the day:

“Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall. And the body alone listens to the passing bee; the wave breaking; the dog barking, far away barking and barking.

—Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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Random quote of the day:

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”

—C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Random quote of the day:

“It is vital that when educating our children’s brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

—Dalai Lama, Twitterfeed, December 5, 2011

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“I’m a big believer that if America, if this country, hasn’t broken your heart then you don’t love her enough. Because there’s things that are savagely wrong in this country.”

—Cory Booker, “Booker: Things Are ‘Savagely Wrong’ in America” by David Rutz, The Washington Free Beacon, August 3, 2018

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Random quote of the day:

“Over the years I have come to suspect that what we finally have to fear the most is carried in our hearts.”

—Chuck Kinder, Last Mountain Dancer

Random quote of the day:

“Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others.”

—Chögyam Trungpa, Shamballa: Path of the Sacred Warrior

Random quote of the day:

“You must descend from
your head into your heart.
At present your thoughts of God
are in your head. And God Himself is,
as it were, outside you, and
so your prayer and other spiritual
exercises
remain exterior. Whilst you are still
in your head,
thoughts will not easily be subdued but
will always be whirling about, like snow
in winter or
clouds of mosquitoes in summer.

—St. Theophan the Recluse, in For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems of the Christian Mystics, ed. Roger Housden

Random quote of the day:

“If our heart were large enough to love life in all its detail, we would see that every instant is at once a giver and a plunderer.”

—Gaston Bachelard, The Intuition of the Instant

Random quote of the day:

“If you have much, give your wealth; if you have little, give your heart.”

—Moroccan proverb

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Random quote of the day:

“Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.”

—Gordon Lish, quoted by Amy Hempel, Juniper Summer Writing Institute, 2012

Random quote of the day:

“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.”

—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

Random quote of the day:

“The only simplicity that matters is the simplicity of the heart.”

—G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.”

—Julia Alvarez, interview, The Writer, Aug. 4, 2016

Random quote of the day:

“A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.”

—Julia Alvarez, interview, The Writer, Aug. 4, 2016

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“Never say you know the last word about any human heart!”

—Henry James, “Louisa Pallant”

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.”

—Mark Twain, Eve’s Diary

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Random quote of the day:

“The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.”

—Charles L. Allen, When the Heart Is Hungry