Heart Quotes - Page 27

• Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Meditation Practice, Giving, Mind

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• In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In ruling, be just. In daily life, be competent. In action, be aware of the time and the season.

  Laozi

  Land, Dwelling, Meditation

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• Meditation on the majestic energyof the universe should increase our love for humanity, should widen, not narrow, our hearts.

  Richard Holloway

  Meditation, Humanity, Our Love

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• Meditate. Let the light of the heart engulf you.

  Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

  Light, Meditation

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• Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Hunger For Love, Silence

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• I sometimes like to sit in the silence and darkness and listen to my heart shine.

  Frank D. Gilroy

  Shining, Silence, Darkness

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• There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Sweet, Past

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence, To break the endless song If life were always merry, Our souls would seek relief, And rest from weary laughter In the quiet arms of grief.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Sweet, Song

  Henry Van Dyke, “If All The Skies”

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• The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.

  Alfred de Musset

  Silence, Mouths, Speak

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• Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Long, Silence, Suffering

  'La mort du loup' (1838)

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• The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.

  Joseph Joubert

  Men, Silence, Mouths

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!

  Richard Flecknoe

  Art, Silence, Flood

  'Miscellania' (1653)

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• There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.

  Madison Cawein

  Silence, Brain, Ghost

  Madison Julius Cawein, “Haunters Of The Silence”

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• Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart.

  Johann Arndt

  Suffering, Spirit, Sin

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• Behold Jesus Christ crucified, Who is the only foundation of our hope; He is our Mediator and Advocate; the victim and sacrifice for our sins. He is goodness and patience itself; His mercy is moved by the tears of sinners, and He never refuses pardon and grace to those who ask it with a truly contrite and humbled heart.

  Carlo Borromeo

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Grace

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• In this simple but profound psychological way Scripture tells the history of the fall and of the origin of sin. In this way sin continues still to come into being. It begins with the darkening of the understanding, continues with the excitement of the imagination, stimulates desire in the heart, and culminates in an act of the will

  Herman Bavinck

  Fall, Simple, Imagination

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• As soldiers, you will always have to cherish and live up to the three ideals of faithfulness, duty and sacrifice. Soldiers who always remain faithful to their nation, who are always prepared to sacrifice their lives, are invincible. If you, too, want to be invincible, engrave these three ideals in the innermost core of your hearts.

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Army, Sacrifice, Soldier

  Subhas Chandra Bose, Subbier Appadurai Ayer, Sisir Kumar Bose, Sugata Bose (2007). “Netaji Collected Works”

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• This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries the country has been torn by internal dissension and religious wars and has been subjected to a variety of foreign influences, to the influence, for example, of Christianity-for Christianity is not a natural religion for the Germans, but a religion that has been imported and which strikes no responsive chord in their hearts and is foreign to the inherent genius of the race. (13th February 1945)

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Religious, War

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• America has joined forces with the Allied Powers, and what we have of blood and treasure are yours. Therefore it is that with loving pride we drape the colors in tribute of respect to this citizen of your great republic. And here and now, in the presence of the illustrious dead, we pledge our hearts and our honor in carrying this war to a successful issue. Lafayette, we are here.

  Charles E. Stanton

  Military, War, Pride

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• Goddamn it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!

  Henry Pierson Crowe

  Military, Marine, Purple

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• Our warriors are no longer limited to the people who fly the airplanes...Our entire force is a warrior force. Being a warrior is not an AFSC, ...it's a condition of the heart.

  John P. Jumper

  Military, Airplane, Warrior

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• Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Military, Fighting, Blood

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• An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Success, Ambition

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “The Essential Travel Writings (Annotated Edition)”, p.281, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Ambition, Fame, Trumpets

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• Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ambition, Errors, Tears

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