Heart Quotes - Page 146

There are no rules. Just follow your heart.

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears.

Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us to break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed, scandalous social inequalities. Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

Tears fall in my heart As tears fall on the town.

A poem, being an instance of language, hence essentially dialogue, may be a letter in a bottle thrown out to the sea with the-surely not always strong-hope that it may somehow wash up somewhere, perhaps on the shoreline of the heart. In this way, too, poems are en route: they are headed towards. Toward what? Toward something open, inhabitable, an approachable you, perhaps, an approachable reality. Such realities are, I think, at stake in a poem.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.

The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

The coming of Jesus at Bethlehem brought joy to the world and to every human heart. may His coming this Christmas bring to each one of us that peace and joy that He desires to give.

Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.

To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.

There is nothing as whole, or as perfect, as a broken heart.

I desire to unite Myself to human souls, Know, My daughter, that when I come to a human heart in Holy Communion, My hands are full of all kinds of graces which I want to give to the soul. But souls do not even pay any attention to Me; they leave Me to Myself and busy themselves with other things... They treat Me as a dead object.

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

Through the opened heart, the world comes rushing in, the way oceans fill the smallest hole along the shore. It is the quietest sort of miracle: by simply being who we are, the world will come to fill us, to cleanse us, to baptize us, again and again.

I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place in my heart. It is the place where stories live. And those stories have been informing my days, comforting my nights, and extending possibilities ever since. If that library had not been there, if the books - such as they were - had not been free, my world would be poor, even today.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Just remember when you think you're free, the crack in your heart is me.

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.

Know the weapons of the weak, kill weakness of the heart and never fall asleep.

Where the heart is the mind works best.