Hearted Quotes

• Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  Jean de La Fontaine (2013). “Selected Fables: A Dual-Language Book”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're right. I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you, but I don't like to hurt people's feelings. Well, you think what you want about me. I'm not changing. I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. 'Cause I'm the real article. What you see is what you get.

  John Candy

  Hurt, Real, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Del Griffith". "Planes, Trains and Automobiles", 1987.

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• Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Love Yourself, Things In Life

  "Celebrating John Lennon’s Birthday in His Own Inspiring Words" by Jeryl Brunner,, parade.com. October 09, 2014.

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• They always say the hottest love has the coldest end.

  Drake

  Sad, Break Up, Broken Heart

  Song: July

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• There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "Celebrating John Lennon’s Birthday in His Own Inspiring Words" by Jeryl Brunner, parade.com. October 09, 2014.

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• People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness.

  Howard E. Wasdin

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity - because as a lover of my county, I trembled at the coming day of wrath.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Christian, Mother, Wrath

  On Uncle Tom's Cabin in a letter to Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman, January 20, 1853.

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• Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.

  Sebastian Coe

  Winning, Order, Focus

  "The Winning Mind: What it takes to become a true champion". Book by Sebastian Coe, January 3, 2010.

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• For a better, happier, more stable and civilized future, each of us must develop a sincere, warm-hearted feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood.

  Dalai Lama

  Sisterhood, Feelings, Brotherhood

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• When the Spirit came to Moses, the plagues came upon Egypt, and he had power to destroy men's lives; when the Spirit came upon Elijah, fire came down from heaven; when the Spirit came upon Gideon, no man could stand before him; and when it came upon Joshua, he moved around the city of Jericho and the whole city fell into his hands; but when the Spirit came upon the Son of Man, He gave His life; He healed the broken-hearted.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Son, Men, Fire

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• Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic....So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Sweet, Rivers

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• The fragrance of the heart is made up of the qualities and virtues of our spirit. Most of us have learned how to keep our heart closed in a world that would trample all over us if we let it. Being open hearted today seems to require tremendous courage.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Quality, World

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• You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

  Alfred Adler

  Morning, Real, Broken

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• I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Cold Hearted, Serious, Paradox

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• The smile that illumines the features of beauty,
  When kindled by virtue, alluring appears;
  But smiles, tho' alluring, no magic can borrow,
  To vie with the softness of beauty in tears.
  The smiles that are sweetest are often deceiving;
  Too often a mask which the cold-hearted wears;
  But a tear is the holiest offspring of feeling,
  And monarchs are weak before beauty in tears.

  Henry George Bohn

  Feelings, Magic, Cold Hearted

  Henry George Bohn (1867). “A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets”, p.623

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• Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Men, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.738, Modern Library

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• The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

  Marian Anderson

  Mean, Way, Courageous

  Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.312, University of Illinois Press

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• In case you haven't noticed, people get hard-hearted against the people they hurt. Because they can't stand it. Literally. To think we did that to someone. I did that. So we think of all the reasons why it's okay we did whatever we did.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Hurt, Thinking, People

  Elizabeth Strout (2013). “The Burgess Boys”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants . . .

  Herman Melville

  Girl, Home, Dancing

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.137, Velvet Element Books

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• The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Real, Numbers, West

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• [Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

  Augustine Birrell

  Education, Mother, Steps

  "Obiter Dicta". Book by Augustine Birrell, 1884.

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• Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a simple, earnest-hearted girlhood, and they are the happiest women who never lose it entirely.

  Lucy Larcom

  Girl, Simple, Thinking

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.

  Robert Burns

  Men, Church, Damnation

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• People who know me know that theres a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.

  Waris Ahluwalia

  Light, People, Sides

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• I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all your time criticising it. The EEC is free Europe getting together. Had we had some vision like that after the first world war , we might never had the second ... my son does not have to go and fight as his father had to fight. Surely that is the most valuable thing of all, the reason for keeping Europe together.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Father, War, Fighting

  "In her own words" by Julian Glover, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2002.

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