Hearted Quotes - Page 15

• I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

  Miranda Kerr

  People, Enjoy Life, Trying

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• Old Khayyám, say you, is a debauchee;If only you were half so good as he!He sins no sins but gentle drunkenness,Great-hearted mirth, and kind adultery.But yours the cold heart, and the murderous tongue,The wintry soul that hates to hear a song,The close-shut fist, the mean and measuring eye,And all the little poisoned ways of wrong.

  Omar Khayyam

  Song, Hate, Eye

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• Those who like myself, consider themselves to be followers of Buddha, should practice as much as we can. To followers of other religious traditions, I would like to say, 'Please practice your own religion seriously and sincerely.' And to non-believers, I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Attitude, Practice

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• This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Courage, Warrior

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• Truth will always reassert itself, given a symbolic three days. Three days represents the time it takes between the crucifixion and the resurrection, between an open-hearted response to hurt and the experience of rebirth that will always follow.

  Marianne Williamson

  Hurt, Healing, Three

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• Evasions are the common shelter of the hard-hearted, the false, and impotent, when called upon to assist; the real great alone plan instantaneous help, even when their looks or words presage difficulties.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Looks, Shelter, Helping

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves.

  Joseph Joubert

  Simple, Simplicity, Half

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Kirstie [Alley] saved me, in a way. [At the time], I had a terrible marriage, and I stayed at her house. She was wonderful - just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Girl, House, Way

  Source: www.gq.com

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• There's also a way that you have of being precise but also allusive, that works well for me - it's something about the open-hearted way you frame your queries. Instead of feeling daunted or discouraged, I feel excited to give whatever it is a try. This takes a lot of editorial wisdom and confidence - to know just how to get the writer to take that extra chance.

  George Saunders

  Giving, Feelings, Trying

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

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• The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places--to comfort the broken-hearted, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity.

  Olympia Brown

  Broken, Comfort, Earth

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• The friendship of fine-hearted, generous boys, nurtured amid the romance-engendering comforts and elegancies of life, sometimes transcends the bounds of mere boyishness, and revels for a while in the empyrean of a love which only comes short, by one degree, of the sweetest sentiment entertained between the sexes.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Friends, Sex

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.276, Herman Melville

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• Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?

  Mary MacLane

  World, Sexuality, Pure Love

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.29, Petrarca Press

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• Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted,
  Their heads being turned with praise and flattery;
  And that is why their lovers are afraid
  To tell them a plain story.

  William Butler Yeats

  Women, Stories, Stubborn

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness is often hard-hearted.

  Mason Cooley

  Happiness, Hard

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• Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.

  Brené Brown

  Broken, Capacity, Wholeheartedness

  "The Courage to Be Vulnerable". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. January 29, 2015.

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• When you are warm-hearted, there is no room for anger, jealousy or insecurity.

  Dalai Lama

  Insecurity, Rooms, Warm Hearted

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• Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.

  Edward Abbey

  Adventure, Climbing, Half

  "Saving Nature's Legacy : Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity" by Reed F. Noss, Allen Y. Cooperrider, and Rodger Schlickeisen, (p. 338), 1994.

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• What becomes of the broken-hearted? They buy shoes.

  Mimi Pond

  Shoes, Broken, Broken Hearted

  Mimi Pond (1985). “Shoes never lie”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

  Amy Carmichael

  Blessed, Blessing, Soul

  Amy Carmichael (2010). “Candles in the Dark: Letters of Hope and Encouragement”, p.56, CLC Publications

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• Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It is a cheerful revolt against self and pride.

  Richard J. Foster

  Pride, Light, Self

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• Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Arbitrary, Wizards, Chaos

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.66, Weiser Books

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• But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted

  Robert Burns

  Broken, Forever, And Love

  Robert Burns, “A Fond Kiss”

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• It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.

  Nikola Tesla

  Simple, Engineering, Doubt

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.514, Simon and Schuster

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• Are you willing to say to God that He can have whatever He wants?  Do you believe that whole hearted commitment to Him is more important than any other thing or person in your life?  Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter; unless it is about loving God and loving the people He has made?

  Francis Chan

  Believe, Commitment, People

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.97, David C Cook

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• The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Men, Effort

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