Heartbeat Quotes - Page 8

• You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.

  Max Lucado

  Fear, Sunrise, Lasts

  Max Lucado (2012). “Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• He watched a catbird hopping around in an azalea that was readying itself to bloom; he envied the bird for knowing nothing of what he knew; he would have swapped souls with it in a heartbeat. And then to take wing, to know the air's buoyancy even for an hour: the trad was a no-brainer, and the catbird, with its lively indifference to him, its sureness of physical selfhood, seemed well aware of how preferable it was to be the bird.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Azaleas, Knowing Nothing, Air

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• Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Heart, Walking Away, Breathing

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• Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat.

  Nicole Williams

  Caring, Scary, Feels

  Nicole Williams (2012). “Crash”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• He had on bunny slippers. These had fangs. They all stared at them in silence for about a heartbeat, and then Shane said, "That is impressively wicked. Crazy, but wicked.

  Rachel Caine

  Crazy, Silence, Wicked

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• There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars. Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. Its hard to live in all those kinds of times. Easy to forget that you live in all of them.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Stars, Years, Mountain

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.286, Tor Books

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• If you put two brigades on the ground right now with U.S. forces, they would push ISIS back into Syria in a heartbeat.

  Anthony Zinni

  Military, Two, Isis

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• We left no doubt that we are one heartbeat And something like that is pretty hard to stop Once it gets going

  Oscar Lua

  Doubt, Left, Hard

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• Christ used the flesh and blood of Mary for his life on earth, the Word of love was uttered in her heartbeat. Christ used his own body to utter his love on earth; his perfectly real body, with bone and sinew and blood and tears; Christ uses our bodies to express his love on earth, our humanity. A Christian life is a sacramental life, it is not a life lived only in the mind, only by the soul... Our humanity is the substance of the sacramental life of Christ in us, like the wheat for the host, like the grape for the chalice.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Christian, Real

  Caryll Houselander, Marie Anne Mayeski (1991). “A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader”, p.49, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The great event on Calvary . . . is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is the most durable power in the world, and that it is at bottom the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. Only through achieving this love can you expect to matriculate into the university of eternal life.

  Martin Luther

  Life, Heart, Power

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• You know love is everything you say A whisper, a word Promises you give You feel it in the heartbeat of the day You know this is the way love is

  Enya

  Heart, Love Is, Giving

  Song: Amarantine, Album: Amarantine, 2005

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• I'm on a Mission, that niggaz say is Impossible,
  But when I swing my swords they all choppable,
  I be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper,
  Child educator, plus head amputator.

  GZA

  Children, Rap, Heart

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• There would be no chance at all of getting to know death if it happened only once. But fortunately, life is nothing but a continuing dance of birth and death, a dance of change. Every time I hear the rush of a mountain stream, or the waves crashing on the shore, or my own heartbeat, I hear the sound of impermanence. These changes, these small deaths, are our living links with death. They are death's pulses, death's heartbeat, prompting us to let go of all the things we cling to.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Letting Go, Dying

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jan 19, 2015

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• Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Silence, Grace, Wilderness

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• I don't have any choice any more. I am in a choiceless awareness. I don't have to be aware. I am simply aware. Now it is just like my heartbeat or like my breathing. Even if I try not to be aware, it is not possible; the very effort will make me more aware. Awareness is not a quality, a characteristic; it is your whole being. When you become aware, there is no choice left to be otherwise.

  Rajneesh

  Breathing, Choices, Effort

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• One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it.

  Rajneesh

  Morning, Sleep, Meditation

  "Walking in Zen, Sitting in Zen". Book by Rajneesh, 1982.

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• And at any moment it all ends with a heartbeat…just one heartbeat, and there’s no more time. One heartbeat and the chance to be saved is gone. One heartbeat and there’s no more choosing—it’s all sealed for eternal life or eternal death.

  Jonathan Cahn

  Gone, Chance, Moments

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• How was it that, even in the common tasks of an ordinary life, Jesus drew the praise of heaven? At the core of His being, He only did those things which pleased the Father. In everything, He stayed true, heartbeat to heartbeat, with the Father's desires. Jesus lived for God alone; God was enough for Him. Thus, even in its simplicity and moment-to-moment faithfulness, Christ's life was an unending fragrance, a perfect offering of incomparable love to God.

  Francis Frangipane

  Jesus, Father, Offering

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• Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges. but I was in a little better physical shape every day, I was getting my looks back, and my spirits were rising, and this was all in all a happy time for me. All these weirdos, and me getting a little better right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

  Denis Johnson

  Voice, Happy Times, People

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• He knew. I could see it in his face. Look, if someone gets infected you've got between ten and twenty seconds to kill them. It might be your brother or your sister or your oldest friend. It makes no difference. And just so you know where you stand - if it happens to you, I'll do it in a heartbeat.

  Selena

  Brother, Halloween, Differences

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• Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Blood, People, World

  Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Shoemaker's Wife: A Novel”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Clouds, Raindrops, Reminders

  Tahereh Mafi (2014). “Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• I listened to the wind bury winter; and when I tasted his grace, his grace had no name; only, night became something else in his presence, as though darkness had a soul, here, swaying to heartbeats roaring.

  Marjorie M. Liu

  Winter, Night, Wind

  Marjorie M. Liu (2008). “The Iron Hunt”, p.52, Penguin

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• Namby-pamby little routines that don't speed up your heartbeat and make you sweat aren't worth your while.

  Jane Fonda

  Sweat, Work Out, Littles

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• Over the past year I'vediscovered if you keep on giving and giving, you end up losing yourself. I think that learning to give and receive is the trick. Perfect happiness is also a feeling, and the most amazing thing is that we were all born with the gift to make it happen in a heartbeat. Putting on certainmusic, reading something can make us feel a certain way. I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

  Brittany Murphy

  Reading, Past, Thinking

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