While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.
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While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.
True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.
To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
Love can never grow old. Looks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.
Hatred is the madness of the heart.
Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.
I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
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.
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
Words are the voice of the heart.
I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.
If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.
Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure - that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.
It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend: the heart beats in your chest; outside, the trees are thick with new leaves, a swallow dips over them, the light moves, people are going about their business.
In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.
I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.
Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.
Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.
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