Alice Walker Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

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

  Alice Walker

  Heart, Trying, Literature

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

  Alice Walker

  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

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  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

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

  Alice Walker

  Hurt, Believe, Heart

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

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

  Alice Walker

  Heart, Broken, Open 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.

  Alice Walker

  Heart, Mean, Light

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Heart, People, Imagination

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Heart

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

• Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.

  Alice Walker

  Heart, Wish, Expect Nothing

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

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Pain, War, Heart

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Stars, Disappointment, Heart

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

• I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.

  Alice Walker

  Daughter, Mother, Teaching

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Heart, People, Giving

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

• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Heart, Worry, Trying

  Source: www.blackflix.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.

  Alice Walker

  Party, Drinking, Heart

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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

  Alice Walker

  Heart, Laughing, Humour

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

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