Human Heart Quotes - Page 15

• God, what a world, if men in street and mart felt that same kinship of the human heart which makes them, in the face of fire and flood, rise to the meaning of true brotherhood.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1837, Delphi Classics

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• There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

  James T. Rapier

  Bullying, Heart, Safety

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• His (Christ's) appearance in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but are as interconnected as the two beams of the cross.

  Henri Nouwen

  Heart, Two, Tasks

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• For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

  William Blake

  Love, Jealousy, Peace

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Divine Image'

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• Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

  Daniel De Leon

  Heart, Ideas, Progress

  "Patriotism and Poverty". "The Daily People" Newspaper, July 26, 1900.

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• I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.

  Harlan Coben

  Heart, Violence, Horror

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• The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

  Walter Lippmann

  Stars, Lying, Moving

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.127, Transaction Publishers

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• All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

  Maya Angelou

  Heart, Artist, Resources

  "Maya Angelou: 'I'm fine as wine in the summertime'". Interview With Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2009.

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• I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Real, Book

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• The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Reactions, Subtle

  Daisaku Ikeda (2017). “Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays”, p.35, Middleway Press

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• Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

  Michael Ende

  Heart, Monotonous Life, Humans

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• The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

  Vaclav Havel

  Lying, Hero, Heart

  International Herald Tribune, February 21, 1990.

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• Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

  Victor Hugo

  Love You, Heart, Trying

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• Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

  Lydia M. Child

  Blessed, Home, Heart

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 34, 1843.

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• The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.

  Giotto di Bondone

  Broken Heart, Stars, Wish

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• I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.

  George R. R. Martin

  Heart, Character, Writing

  "Producers David Benioff, Dan Weiss & George R.R. Martin Talk GAME OF THRONES Season 3 and 4, Martin’s Cameo, the End of the Series, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 20, 2013.

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• In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beauty, Beautiful, God

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• The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

  Lillian Smith

  Hurt, Grief, Heart

  "Killers of the Dream" by Lillian Smith, (pp. 25-26), 1994.

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• How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

  Alexander Smith

  Heart, Garden, Desire

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.223, tredition

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• There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Passion, Heart

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.177

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• The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

  George Sand

  Art, Light, Vocation

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• In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Heart, Mean

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• I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

  Laurence Olivier

  Knowledge, Heart, Theatre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Heart, Delight

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations”, p.7, Image

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• There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

  William Hazlitt

  Respect, Heart, Pride

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