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Alice Walker Quotes about Heart

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A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

Heart, Artist, Broken

Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.164, New Press, The

Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.

Heart, People, Imagination

I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

Heart, Trying, Literature

Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.

Heart, Wish, Expect Nothing

Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.134, Ballantine Books

You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.

Heart, Broken, Open Heart

So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time; it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart.

Heart, Worry, Trying

Source: www.blackflix.com

HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.

Heart, Laughing, Humour

Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?

Hurt, Believe, Heart

Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Love, Heart, Happy Valentines Day

Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.65, New Press, The

You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.

Heart

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm.

Pain, War, Heart

I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.

Heart, Mean, Light

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or drinking or partying or whatever - if I couldn't get away from that, I would have a heavy heart.

Party, Drinking, Heart

Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Become a stranger to need of pity. Or if compassion be freely given out, take only enough. Stop short of the urge to plead, then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger than your own small heart or greater than a star. Tame wild disappointment with caress, unmoved and cold. Make of it a parka for your soul. Discover the reason why so tiny human midget exists at all, so scared and so unwise. But expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Stars, Disappointment, Heart

"Anything We Love Can Be Saved". Book by Alice Walker, June, 1997.

I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine, if you've given it your whole heart and soul. You're totally in sync with your purpose and with the universe. And that's fine.

Heart, People, Giving

"Alice in Walkerland!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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